Suicide Squad 2: 10 Things That Will Make It Awesome

4. Pick A Tone!

Suicide Squad Joker Jared Leto
Warner Bros. Pictures

At times, Suicide Squad felt like multiple different movies and visions mashed together. A good chunk of it was light-hearted, with tonnes of Guardians of the Galaxy-inspired musical sections and quips. And then there were the darker scenes - The Joker and Harley, Waller gunning down her colleagues and Enchantress's Japanese horror-film look, for instance.

It's safe to assume that David Ayer was responsible for this darker stuff, and the studio the lighter stuff. His past work, like Fury and End of Watch, hasn't exactly been all sunshine and rainbows, and you can't expect him to direct the Guardians Of The Galaxy rip-off that the studio so clearly wanted this to be.

We've seen the visions of the studio and the director clash before, with disastrous results - Josh Trank with Fantastic Four, Zack Snyder with Batman v Superman - and very rarely does it result in a cohesive product. Suicide Squad had many great elements, but the film was just that - great elements that didn't always come together. The sequel must pick a direction, and head in that direction without fail!

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