Suicide Squad 2: 10 Things It Must Do Better Than The Original
8. Show, Don't Tell
Another issue with Suicide Squad is that it ultimately presented the characters in a heroic light. They risk life and limb to kill monsters and witches, which is for the most part laudable, but wasn't it supposed to be a villain team-up?
Embarrassingly, it falls to Harley Quinn to flat-out tell the audience "we're bad guys", because the fleeting flashback sequences showing their pre-squaddie existence don't really do their job.
In order to set itself apart from other comic book team-up movies, Suicide Squad 2 must include badder bad guys. Show them doing terrible things, rather than throwing around expository dialogue.
The team should employ morally questionable tactics in battle, make the kind of choices a clean-cut hero would never select and risk losing the audience's empathy, only to win it back again through true grit.
The fact they are actually villains must be highlighted in more sequences, otherwise we've just got a darker Justice League on our hands. And with Justice League Dark in the pipeline, what's the point of that?