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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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Mehbooba - Review

For a change, Puri really wrote a new story albeit a story well known to Indian audience. A love story across multiple lives is a good commercial plot. Add to it, Love during the times of war genre and you should have a winner. Puri succeeds in that part. 

But very unfortunately the writing stopped there. The movie overall has a decent story and very nice interval twist but the proceedings are lethargic, laborious and unrelentingly painful(I didn’t know that I knew so many adjectives). Second half is a drag fest. 

The biggest problem of the movie is the lack of emotion backing the love story across lives. There are may be one or two scenes where you feel like feeling for the lead couple but then immediately you will be disconnected because of a cliched or a cheesy scene. Saying that climax is a big letdown would be an understatement. Both Akash and Neha does good job for a first movie. Music by Sandeep Chowta is good in songs but the bgm for which he is famous for is lacking in this. 

Overall, Puri tried but....

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