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Suicide Squad - Review

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Figuring they're all expendable, a U.S. intelligence officer decides to assemble a team of dangerous, incarcerated supervillains for a top-secret mission. Now armed with government weapons, Deadshot (Will Smith), Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), Captain Boomerang, Killer Croc and other despicable inmates must learn to work together. Dubbed Task Force X, the criminals unite to battle a mysterious and powerful entity by the name of Enchantress (Cara Delevingne), who tries to dominate the world while the diabolical Joker (Jared Leto) launches an evil agenda of his own. Suicide Squad has been a long awaited movie since it was first announced, was the wait worth it? More or less. We get an easy and weak plot with too many characters to introduce but it is a fun ride after all.  The two big stars of "Suicide Squad" We have already seen that kind of movie, a bad guy shows up and a group of people must join forces to fight and save the planet. But this time we get the bad gu

Summer Movies Reviews

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While this may not be the greatest cinema summer ever, there has been some nice surprises, especially with sequels... lots of sequels. As there have been to many releases, I'm gonna do some "quick" reviews for each of them: :: X-Men - Apocalypse :: Set a few years after the previous film, this time a new villian named Apocalypse will try to rule the world and destroy all humans. The old cast is back with some new adds; while it was nice to see McAvoy and Fassbender together one last time and the amazing Quicksilver with his epic and funny slow-motion scene, there were some flaws like the choice of the young Cyclops and Jean Grey.  We also get to see a small "non-talking" cameo of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine during his Weapon-X storyline; that scene felt like it didn't belong there and raised more questions than answers with the new plot-holes. - What I liked most: Quicksilver's scene, the main duo together one last time, Fassbender's perf