The suicide squad - 2021

 The opening credits start with images of DC heroes and a Johnny Cash song.

Savant has explosive put in his head when he is sent on a mission and can exit the prison with the rest of task force 6, the suicide squad, lead by colonel Rick Flag.

He joins Captain Boomerang (with the gold tooth), Blackguard the blond guy, Mongal with orange skin, Javelin with… well, a javelin, and also a yellow-blue costume. T.D.K. is in armor, Weasel is a human-size weasel with fur and tail, and of course there’s Harley Quinn.

All taken from prison.

They fly to an island. Apparently the weasel can’t swim. Savant brings her out of the water and tells everyone it’s dead. As they’re all out of the water, Blackguard walks forward yelling stuff like ‘I called you, I brought them here to you, we had an agreement’, stuff like that, but’s he’s the first one killed.

The army of the Corto Maltese island shoot him. Mongal brings down a helicopter and burns in its crash. Boomer is killed by the crash. Javelin is shot several times. TDK, which really stands for The Detachable Kid, has his arms hit the soldiers after being detached from his body (the most absurd scene of the movie, and in This movie it is saying something).

The arms are shot a lot, and I guess he dies from blood loss… or something.

Savant tries to swim away, and Waller from headquarters sees that on video, so they activate the explosive and his head, big surprise, explodes.

We hear there was another team sent there, lead by Bloodsport. They find no army patrolling the beach because they were all against the other team. Apparently he didn’t know anything about that. In that first team, they’re all dead but Harley and Flag.

Bloodsport was raised to become a killer, he’s in prison because he hit Superman with a Kryptonite bullet. He didn’t want to join the squad, refused many times, but then his daughter Tyla, 16 years old, is busted stealing a smartwatch, and Waller threatens him with having her on trial as an adult and send her to a real, hard prison, where she could easily die, she tells him, all of this to convince him. So he agrees.

Waller’s team are a bit shocked to see what she’s willing to do.

Bloodsport has his own suicide squad: Christopher Smith is Peacemaker, raised to kill just like Bloodsport, he believes in achieving peace in whatever gruesome way he can find.

Kingshark, or Nanaue, IS a shark, a walking-on-two-legs one. Kleo or Ratcatcher2 is the daughter of the deceased Ratcatcher1. She has Sebastian on her shoulder.

Abner is Polka-dot man.

The family leading Corto Maltese was not a soft touch, they were tyrants, but they were America-friendly. Now they’ve been killed by a general and his army. He has the power now, and he is totally against America. There’s a research facility where project Starfish could be really dangerous. The Thinker is lead of the project.

The team arrives to an empty beach. Team 1 was just a diversion. Kingshark almost eats Kleo so is shot several times by Bloodsport, but is not killed. She almost sets rats on him but Bloodsport is afraid of rats. When Waller finds Flag’s signal that he is still alive, she sends the team to rescue him and leave nobody alive, and they do just that. They kill everyone around, only to discover they were the freedom fighters that saved him. Only a woman remains, Sol Soria, who was talking with him.

Harley was taken prisoner, but now she’s dressed like a princess to meet the new President.

We finally see what this Project Starfish is: it’s a real alien starfish that an capture people sort of like Alien and become bigger and bigger. It doesn’t create new starfish, but it uses small ones that are part of it to attack people by landing on their face, then people die and rise as its slaves, as part of him.

President Luna asks Harley to marry him, and she likes him, but then he explains about project Starfish, how the previous leaders used to use it to dispose of any opposition, and he seems inclined to do something like that himself, so she shoots him, he’s another bad choice, another bad boyfriend so she shoots him.

Now there’s a new president, who would quite like to set the starfish free on America, I suppose, and he’s interested in Harley and everything she knows and might tell him.

Team 2 gets the Thinker but when they hear Harley is alive and being tortured for information they make her their priority, Flag insists.

Still, she freed herself - and for whatever reason, soldiers there only have knives on hand, not guns. She kills everyone and takes her javelin back. She was about to take a taxi when she sees the team. She stops them and is quite touched that Flag wanted to save her. Now, all together, they plan to destroy the Jotunheim facility. They enter with Thinker, and find lots and lots of people with starfish on their faces, no more real people then. Thinker tells them that they’re not here to destroy the hostile project, to protect the world from evil alien technology, they’re actually here to cover up the fact that the US government is behind it all, and has always been. Starro the alien starfish was found by American astronauts, and the US government decided to make a weapon out of it. Flag would like to share this fact with the world, but Peacemaker has orders from Waller not to let any information out of there.

Because of the explosions, the beast is free and takes Thinker.

Flag and Peacemaker fight for the harddisk and Flag is killed. Ratcatcher2 sees that and takes the harddisk.

The guys accidentally set the explosions too early, and by stroke of luck this causes Bloodsport to arrive just as Peacemaker is about to shoot Kleo, so he saves her by shooting the guy. She tells him everything.

The remaining squad members run when Starro gets free, and Starro’s small starfish kill all soldiers they can land on, who rise up again as part of it, and Starro moves to the city, to kill everyone. 

Waller only cared about the facility and its data, about their destruction, not about the people, and tells them to leave. Bloodsport doesn’t agree and the others follow him when he goes after it. Waller wants them to stop, considers it defecting and she wants to kill them all, but a woman there hits her before she can do it. Polka-dot man is crushed under Starro. Kingshark tries to eat it , then Kleo sets all the town rats against it, and Harley jumps with her javelin into its eye and the rats follow her, eating it from the inside. Starro dies, and Harley comes out. Poor Starro, it didn’t choose to come here, it was flying and minding his own business when he was captured and brought here…

Bloodsport makes a deal with Waller, he won’t divulge the information if his squad is free and nothing happens to his daughter.

Four are still alive: Harley, Bloodsport, Kleo and Kingshark. And Sebastian the rat :)

I’m glad, I liked Kleo a lot, she’s the only one who had an actual relationship with a parental figure, with her dad. She had a very unusual and tough childhood, yes, but she always knew that her father loved her, and that’s important.

They’re taken back to America.

We see now that the Weasel didn’t really die, and walks away. 

Tyla saw her dad on tv as part of the team that saved the island.

While the soldiers were busy with the team and Starro, the freedom fighters took the power by killing all the generals, and there will now be democratic elections.

At the end of the credits, we see that Peacemaker didn’t die, he was found alive and he is now Waller’s team’s responsibility, their punishment, but I don’t know what they’ll have to do with him.

Harley - Margot Robbie

Waller - Viola Davis

Flag - Joel Kinnaman

Savant - Michael Rooker

TDK - Nathan Fillion

Boomerang - Jai Courtney

Javelin - Flula Borg

Blackguard - Pete Davidson

Weasel - Sean Gunn

Bloodsport - Idris Elba

Peacemaker - John Cena

Ratcatcher2 - Daniela Melchior

Polka-dot man - David Dastmalchian

Tyla - Storm Reid

Sol Soria - Alice Braga

Thinker - Peter Capaldi

President Luna - Juan Diego Botto

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