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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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Betaal - Web Series - Review

Streaming: Netflix

For beginners, Betaal is from one of the India's best VFX companies Red Chillies and Hollywood's one of the finest horror producers Blumhouse productions that gave Paranormal series to Purge series to latest Invisible Man. Now coming to Betaal, it is sub par even without that introduction of the parties involved. Oh forgot to say, Netflix's earlier Ghoul also set a high benchmark for such content.

Betaal is badly developed good story point. Also the story point has shades of White walkers of Game of Thrones. The series' biggest flaw is that the writing makes us believe that everyone wants to queue up and die except Puniya. The writing is so cringe-evoking for a horror.

VFX are a big let down. In short, it reminded me of Khooni Murda etc kind of 90s b-grade horror cult classics. Coming from Red Chillies. it would remain a huge black mark on them.

The actors come across as trying to survive this sub par writing by over compensating with their more than needed acting. I would not blame them as much as I blame the rest of the things.

Overall, Betaal should have been better than Ghoul but now its a blasphemy and gross injustice to Ghoul to even mention it here.
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