Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay (2018)

Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay (2018)

Dir. Sam Liu

This post exists to satisfy a personal goal. There's nothing of value within it. That's not some kind of playful in-joke. It's a true statement. I shit you not, et cetera.

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As someone who has zero interest in the Suicide Squad team, Hell to Pay was my onscreen introduction to Amanda Waller's ragtag group and is, hopefully, my farewell to them, too. I can't speak to how they fare outside of the animated movie, but inside of it I found nothing to like.

The 'not for kids' language and exploding heads violence isn't any kind of compensation for characters that are mostly bland or one-note. The only interesting one is Benjamin Turner (Billy Brown), and he only qualifies as such because he doesn't want to murder folks. Characters without a conscience are almost impossible to relate to. And the plot is absolute garbage. [1]

I don't like wasting time on crap movies because of the wealth of 'still to be watched' stuff that sits on my shelves, but it's mentioned on Wikipedia as being a part of the DC Animated Movie Universe continuity that I've been posting about lately. I'd challenged myself to watch and report on all of them, no matter how awful some of them would be, so to complete the task I needed to endure it and follow through with some words on a webpage, however lame they were.

It's about 70 minutes into the running time before a connection is made, to The Flashpoint Paradox (2013), specifically, but it seemed meaningless in the wider context, relevant to nothing but itself. If I'd known that in advance, I could've avoided suffering 85+ minutes of puerile shit.

With that now done, things can get back to normal for the next post. By the way, I didn't forget to add an image to the post. It has none because I didn't feel it deserved one. 

[1] Only slightly related, but I feel compelled to add a footnote in case there's some misunderstanding. As I see it, DC has two versions of Harley Quinn. There's the one with the black and red costume that made her debut in Batman TAS (i.e., the enjoyable one), and there's the one with two-coloured hair and hot-pants that came after (i.e., the insufferable Hollywood Harley). The latter version is the one that's in the movie. Sadly, the latter version seems to be the Harley that's mostly in use these days, outside of some occasional TAS tie-in comics.

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