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Suicide Squad 2 - Movie Review

Streaming: HBOMAX Suicide Squad 1 was one of the finest DC movies(Minus Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy) to come out from their camp. Do not go by the reviews. It was so well received that Harley Quinn had her own movie. Now cut to Suicide Squad 2 with the famous James Gunn from Marvel camp at the helm, it barely meets the expectations.  Marvel made it seem so easy to write a super hero movie in super entertaining fashion with movies like Winter Soldier, Thor Ragnorak, Guardians of the Galaxy etc. But DC thought all they needed was the guy who directed Guardians to sell Suicide Squad. Oh my oh my how they were wrong. In one phrase, Suicide Squad is a gross mess that shines few times and far in between. Suicide Squad is no Guardians, not even close. The screenplay is messy. The visuals are gross but it aint Kill Bill. Kill Bill romanticizes with violence but Suicide Squad tries to romanticize with gross elements. To say the least, it doesn't work in favor of the movie. Idris Elba is

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Joru: Sundeep Kishan, Rashi Khanna, Sapthagiri and also Brahmanandam cannot save this blasphemy of a movie. But it is a very good lesson for future directors on how to take their audience for a ride and also their producers. 

Fury: There have been numerous movies on war in USA. Fury lead by Brad Pitt does not try to achieve anything new or path breaking. It just tries to tell a war story in most simple way. Yes there are some nice war action episodes and well supported by good cast. But at the end, it is just another war movie with nothing new in it.  

Lucy: A good concept, nice action, Scarlett Johansson, too many cool time lapse shots but one over-achieving director messes it up. At the very beginning the movie reminds us of many Jason Statham movies. Scarlett was apt for the role but soon the movie tries to become a Nolan movie or a Ridley movie which is no easy feat. But you would wish if only the director could pull it off as easily as either Nolan or Ridley. He fails but the does not kill the movie as a whole. It is plainly a movie where the lead role uses her 100% of the cerebral capacity but we can watch it using 0% of ours and term it as popcorn scifi flick.  Don’t expect wonders.

Predestination: Time travel is a pretty interesting premise. Right from Spielberg, many tried their hands at it. Most of them stuck to the belief of alternate timelines. Predestination deals with a time loop that is gonna blow your mind. Sit through the lengthy conversation at the beginning of the movie and it would all make sense slowly. Watching the movie for first 15 minutes can make you easily guess most of the twists but it is not about the twists. It is about the concept of time travel that is awesome. So watch it.

Hunger Games 3: Mocking Jay Part 1: To be frank I never liked the first two and I was not bound to like this one. But one thing I admire about this series is the concept of revolution very well put through for this generation that call themselves rebels(against parents) but hardly connect to the concept of revolution. So it is good that such book was written and such movie is being made. And I cannot stop myself from thinking what was going through the naturally humorous Jennifer Lawrence’s mind while uttering the most hilariously stupid dialogues in the movie and yet utter them so convincingly. That’s the other thing I like about this series, JLaw and her conviction over the stupid setup of the whole Hunger Games. Watch it for JLaw or if you liked first two.

Pataas: Temper movie has almost the same storyline as Pataas. Pataas goes about it in a comedy tone while Temper is very serious. Pataas is a family friendly and kid friendly fun film with no boring moments. Kalyan Ram surprisingly improved by leaps and bounds in this movie. He fitted the canvas of that comedy Cop role to the T. Everything about the movie is right in place except for the actress. Watch it for a full paisa vasool experience. Race Gurram and now Pataas are perfect examples of a well made commercial movies. And in my personal opinion a true triumph of cinema is a well made commercial cinema but not an Oscar winning one.

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