Suicide Squad (Extended Cut Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD UltraViolet Combo Pack)

David Ayer's 'Suicide Squad' came out at a time when it felt like the internet seemed determined to beat down on DC movies. 'Batman v Superman' had just trundled out to overly-serious effect, and before it even hit screens, web articles seemed overly keen to suggest 'Suicide Squad' would be another 'bomb'. It was at this point that I decided to try to avoid any more marketing or articles about the movie, in the hope of avoiding preconceptions. This is something I hope you can do too, as coming at it cold (and admittedly with VERY little knowledge of the comic-book characters involved except the obvious major names), it has a lot of fun surprises. The plot as laid out in the trailers and back cover is pretty simple: following the events of Batman v Superman, Amanda Waller (Viola Davis - hard as nails) decides to create a super-team out of nasty supervillains, forcing them to use their dubious skills for national security by means of coercion and blackmail. Davis' 'Waller' is a wonderful character, so morally murky and manipulative that you wonder if anything is considered 'off-limits' when it comes to the Greater Good. Kinnaman is decent as team leader and mostly decent guy Rick Flagg. Will Smith gets a lot more story and character mileage than suggested in the trailers as hit-man 'Deadshot', and we also get Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, having a ball as the sassy quip-machine with a lethal approach to baseball bats and a wardrobe that'll have teenage boys (and many grown men) drooling into dehydration. Jay Hernandez's Diablo is a brilliantly portrayed blend of humility, self loathing and fearsome power. The film manages to be a veritable cameo-fest, including appearances by Batman, and of course Jared Leto's much discussed take on The Joker. His 'Mister J' is a fascinating creation: unpredictable and genuinely dangerous, blending psychoses, impulsiveness and malice in equal measure, but darker and nastier than any before him. You genuinely feel like this is a Joker you'd be scared to be captured by, for fear of hideous torture and death, rather than the seething anarchy of Ledger's take, or the bonkers collateral damage of Nicholson's. He's used little, but it turns out to be just enough, as the real threat is nowhere near as weak as I feared from early naysayers. The real big-bad of the film is best left unrevealed, except to say that Ayer has a ball with some very sinister and utterly astounding character and costume design, presenting a threat serious enough to warrant a team of bad guys to deal with it. The film isn't without flaws - some small, some major. The plot is ridiculous. In essence there's very little that really happens in terms of story once the drama hits the fan, and the entire thing could have (and should have) been easily avoided by anybody as competent as Waller. There are also major issues with how one bad guy gets taken down; seemingly with pretty much the same equipment other people have been throwing at it all film long without success. Some of the super-team serve little or no purpose. Killer Croc does essentially nothing. So does Captain Boomerang...and Katana fares little better, while Delevingne's 'June Moone' gets to show so little personality it's impossible to see why Kinnaman's character cares for her to begin with. Luckily, Ayer manages to bring some astounding directing chops to the table. Aided by heavy-duty charm and quips from Robbie's Harley Quinn (basically steals the film), soul from Deadshot and fear from The Joker's sparse appearances, he pumps the film full of macho posturing, brutality and violence. Barely ten minutes of the film's second and third acts pass without a few hundred rounds of ammunition being fired or dozens of characters being brutally slain, and the ending, when it comes, is a protracted fireworks display that looks like a beautiful merger of Ghostbusters and Michael Mann's supernatural horror The Keep. In 3D (nicely effective and well executed throughout), it's even more impressive. The film isn't perfect - blockbusters rarely are, especially when under such heavy-duty weight of scrutiny and expectations - but by the end it manages that rare feat: you feel almost like you've just sat through a genuinely unusual and surprising cinema visit, even when watching at home. For a blockbuster, you surely can't ask for much more than that.

Loved this Movie at the pictures. The extra scenes actually make the film more sense with Harley and the joker. The 3D is excellent. My Samsung UHD upscale the image and the visual are great. The audio is fantastic as well on a home cinema system. Even a basic 5.1. It's a shame sound bars are being forced on us

As with all DC movies, very dark (literally), but good movie.

After a brief issue with my original purchase of this movie. This came prompt after & satisfied my DC needs. I've been interested in watching the extended cut to see the extra Joker scenes. Leto's performance is sterling. #restorethesnyderverse. Swift turnaround. Well packaged.

This blu ray with the Extended Cut is better than the original Theatrical cut seen in the cinema but it's still a bit of a mess. Not enough time has been allocated any of these character to make them likable, or particularly interesting. Jared Leto who has proved to be a great actor in Dallas Buyers Ckub is a bit of a letdown asThe Joker. That heavy breathing style was annoying. Margot Robbie is grest casting for Harley Quinn just a bit oversexualised. Will Smith is Will Smith when playing Deadshot with a bit too much focus on his charachter. This cut is watchable, but that's all.

the clarity of the picture on my 1080p laptop was amazing so i bought it to rip to watch on my portable 3d projector in dark hotel rooms where you can't smoke

Love the style of this film, lots of action, comedy and smiles. Recommeded

Very good. Good 3d. It’s a bit like a steampunk version of the bad guys and girl from the batman franchise. It’s ok.good film

Good movie, and it worked

A tiempo, cumple con las expectativas

This is a movie that quite unfairly gets ragged on (mostly by critics), as most of the DCEU movies have. That said, it is not a perfect movie and would have been better (I think) if they would have stuck to director David Ayer's vision and not tried to make it a clone of Guardians of the Galaxy, and just had a bunch of misfits that quip at each other. The story is that ARGUS, headed by Amanda Waller (played wonderfully by Viola Davis) forces a bunch of inmates, some with metahuman abilities to covertly battle threats that the government cannot handle, knowing that the government can disavow them and throw them under the bus if things go sideways. And, to force their cooperation, nanite bombs are implanted in their necks, in order to kill anyone who wants to try and escape. The movie is set after Batman v. Superman and references Superman's death, and Ben Affleck does have a couple of cameo appearances as Batman. And, the movie does do a bit of setup for the Justice League movie. The movie is mostly an origin story for the character of Harley Quinn (played by Margo Robbie) and to some extent Deadshot (played by Will Smith), and partly a mission story of the team trying to take down a 1000-year-old witch (played by Carla Delevingne). The team is headed by Special Forces officer Rick Flag (played by Joel Kinnaman, best known for the series The Killing), who tries to keep the bad guys in line. The movie also reintroduces the live-action Joker, played by Jared Leto, whose take on the character was totally different from any prior version of the character. Almost a punk rocker version of him. Leto was apparently pretty crazy devoted to the role in real life and did a very good job being psychotic. The big controversy over the movie is the extensive reshoots that WB forced Ayers to do to make the movie more like an MCU movie. His version would have had much less comedy, no pop songs, and would have been much more of a dark drama/action combination. After the Snyder Cut of Justice League was actually released fans are now clamoring for an Ayers cut of this movie. Whether it will actually come to pass, remains to be seen. For those who get the Blu-Ray, the movie looks and sounds great in HD. There are over an hour's worth of extras including several making of and behind the scenes features and a gag reel. Definitely, a lot if you like going through the bonus material. There are also two cuts of the movie, the theatrical version, which clocks in at just over two hours including the credits, and an extended version that really just has some extended scenes in it, that adds about 12 minutes of footage. Overall, the movie is much better than it was made out to be. I do think WB would have been better served to follow the MCU format of introducing the main characters in stand-alone movies before they got to the team-up movies. I think this movie would have worked a lot better if there was a stand-alone Batman movie that introduced this version of Joker and Harley Quinn in order to set up her capture, and then had the Suicide Squad movie be a follow up to that, instead of just throwing a bunch of new characters into a movie that only fans of the comics or Batman the Animated series would be familiar with. That said, it is still a good movie that could have been great if the studio would have left it alone and let Ayer make the movie he wanted to.

Used one ordered first, hardly playable. Ordered New one ...Never arrived.

Good movie