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All the cool factors like the hot casts, great comic book characters and pop culture went into the marketing for this film. For a year, we hung on to the breadcrumbs of snippets like the awesome trailers and Instagram posts from the casts.

Then the movie finally comes out and it's just MEH...Just Okay. Not nearly as terrible as the critics say but it wasn't great as expected.

The GOOD: Awesome Casts of Actors Interesting. Hardcore comic book characters each with their own personal origin story

The BAD that made the movie mediocre:

-CHEESY Final Fight Scene - The main villain, enchantress is a lot like Gozer in the 1984 Ghostbusters. A creepy ancient cult supernatural being that was worshipped with magical powers with the desire to rule the world. That was the 80's and it worked back then because it fit the cheesy style of the classic Ghostbusters comedy.

But for Suicide Squad, it's more raw and edgy with DEADLY hardcore villains as the main characters. David Ayers could have picked a better enemy out of all the characters in the comic book world. That was lazy writing.

• If Cara's Enchantress knew what everyone wanted in their hearts, then how could she not predict or see Harley's motive to attack her with the sword. Clarity - There was a scene were Enchantress showed us what each character in the squad wanted in their hearts through a mental fantasy.

• Lame action scenes - The slave servants of Enchantress looked like a PILE OF Black Rocks or Gobs. They had no faces. They only existed to die to see the Suicide Squad in action. THE SQUAD NEEDED BETTER COMPETITION. The things were so dark you couldn't really see them and they were boring. Deadshot (Will Smith) was great though.

• A Lack of action. I think there was only like 1 or 2 fight parts before the final show down.

If David Ayers had the Suicide Squad to fight against another team of comic book villains like Deathstroke or hundreds of other choices that were plotting to take government information or the cliché take over the world, this movie would have been way better. It would have been cool to see Lex Luthor in the mix betraying Amanda Waller or something.

By the squad fighting other hardcore villains with abilities and known identities, we would see their different fighting skills and abilities better rather than them fighting faceless black gobs. So Suicide Squad was MEH. A WASTE of a great cast of actors and awesome comic book characters.

• I didn't care about Rick Flag's love motive with Cara's character. Cliché and corny! Rick's actions and stupid simpleton mistake thinking he can control an ancient demon supernatural being to get rid of the bomb was so stupid.

• Corny happy ending. Rick Flag gets his boring girl back. No sacrifice or risk. PG13.

• The most pointless slow motion ending scene in cinema history.

It is so REFRESHING to see a movie about Jesus Christ especially during a time when this country is becoming darker. This movie came out in perfect timing as we face the Iran Nuclear deal, bloody cult references in music videos, also homosexuality in the media EVERY WHERE. Society has become the age of the politically correct, bullying anyone that disagrees with the mainstream spiritual perversion.

We are now in the age when a man can surgically makes himself a woman and receives a Hero award for it. Spiritual warfare is real. It's what goes on behind the scenes that are causing the actions in the physical.

While yes, this movie does have tokens of comfortable American Christianity, the heart core message of submitting to God to win the spiritual war against the ancient enemy is still powerful. And yes, some parts of the plot are predictable and some parts are way too happy while war is not pretty, the movie still gets the point across.

The only thing I want to point out about the ending of this movie is that we can't "pray" away prophecy. What is happening to America now is prophecy. It's better to prepare for the chaos to come rather than to fall away like the scriptures warn that there will be a great falling away. I can imagine some people will fall away and lose hope when America falls.

Oh boy, I haven't seen a recent great movie in a while. Older classic movies are timeless, but over the past recent years movies well umm..suck. This one is a pleasant solid movie, bringing it back to great older movies.

Although, the plot is simple "live, die, repeat," I appreciate how this movie was directed with twists and surprises in the most unpredictable way. Today movies are too busy being centered on sex, nudity and violence rather than the plot, concept and purpose of a movie, they don't make them like this anymore.

I'm not going into every scene or the characters because I want you to watch the movie yourself. The climax up until the ending of this movie is G-R-E-A-T! It keeps you in suspense.

Also I've never been a die-hard Tom Cruise fan either especially his behavior in the last decade.

For a 5th movie in a series, I was surprised it was still entertaining to watch. I'm not going to lie, I have not kept up over the years or watched every single movie in this series.

I like the team and cast. I enjoyed the action and the humor. My only bone to pick is how many times the character Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) failed her mission but SOMEHOW the villain that was supposed to be Ethan's intellectual match, let her live. This dude is supposed to be the MOST intelligent, intimidating and scary villain. Sean Harris as Solomon Lane did just fine with the acting, it's just the plot let a pretty face fool him not once but 3 times! Then Faust attacked her fellow villain mates off their motor cycles, increasing their suspicion.

Spoiler* She came back with a highly important data disc that was wiped out and completely deleted. If this were "real" she would have been shot on the spot after failing 2 times previously. (1.Helping him escape in the beginning and 2. the opera show)

Lane kept saying she had so much potential as his motive for not shooting her and moving on but her "potential" doesn't make up for all her mistakes.

Also if Ethan (Tom Cruise) is supposed to be such a hot-shots spy, why did this chick have to rescue him like 3 times??? The water scene, he dodged getting hit the first time then got hit by the same machine part he previously dodged.

Christian Bale is awesome as usual and did his BEST in this Matrix-wannabe like movie. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have kept watching. Unfortunately, watching this movie continuously contradict its key plot element of a no emotion society, made it difficult to watch. Often times laughable.

Think about it. How can there be acting WITHOUT emotion? With NO acting, there is NO movie! Who wants to watch apathy for almost 2 hours?

Also the core of the movie shows a society that eliminates any hint of emotion to avoid war, but yet they legalize murder on so many groups of people?! People who *GASP* own art, music and culture or anything that causes emotion. Really? LOL? Corny much?

At the end when Taye Diggs tried to expose Bale's character, he showed EMOTION *gasp!* I think in the beginning of the movie, Bale was the ONLY one who achieved stoicism that this movie was going for. If it wasn't for Bale, I would give this movie like a 3/10 for its silly plot.

Note: This was written before Chi-Raq came out which was 10 times worst!

*In Flavor Flav voice* "Don't believe the hype!!" (Public Enemy,1988)

As someone who grew up as an 80's baby and 90's kid to early teens, I had high expectations for this film. I was so excited to see this movie. My background in break dancing (bgirling) is all about 80's- 90's hip hop. I love Kid N Play's House Party, In Living Color, New Jack Swing and Hip Hop Artists! I enjoyed the classic 1999 movie "The Wood" starring Omar Epps and Taye Diggs, another movie by the SAME director as "Dope," Rick Famuyiwa. The beginning of the movie "Dope" was GOLD with the cinematography style, comedy and 90's nostalgia, BUT right in the middle this movie CRASHED into a DISASTER as the plot unraveled and dragged on FOREVER to ridiculous unrealistic circumstances!! So what went wrong?

The reason there is a lot of HYPE for this movie and high ratings is because "Dope" serves as a Black Culture 101 and Hood for Dummies for people who have NOT been exposed to diversity BELOW middle class. The older age crowd sees this movie as a tool to learn on what's "in" or cool now for the new generation. Also the people who are at the top of the Sundance film festival, the decision makers REALLY PUSHED this movie. Then you have the black folks that just like this movie for the hip hop and 90s references and turn a deaf ear to the black stereotypes and terrible message.

People are SO mind blown and so intrigued with the cool factors of this film like the rappers and celebrity cast, 90's beats, culture, social media and party scenes through out the movie, that they MISSED and IGNORED the underlying NEGATIVE message that says "If you're from the Hood, you stay Hood. And that's what you'll always be. There's NO way out, so CONFORM." This movie also had the NERVE to imply that college was only a WHITE thing and that selling drugs is the ONLY WAY out the hood for a black male.

*SPOILER Alert* I haven't wanted to walk out in a movie theater in a long time. When this movie got to the part that was SUPPOSED to be a clever plot twist, where Malcolm's only ticket out the hood turns out to be a TRAP to conform and push drugs, I LOST IT!!! Malcolm's Harvard Alumni interviewer and could-have-been mentor Austin Jacoby was the drug lord and head of the entire drug operation. He turned out to be the final mystery person that Malcolm had to deliver the money for the backpack of drugs to. What a simpleton coincidence! So stupid! Why would a successful Harvard grad still be pushing drugs to the youth on the streets?

Here you have someone also from "the bottoms" from the same hood that made it into Harvard but stayed in the drug game, getting kids to push dope AFTER making it "successful" out the hood. That communicates "Look kids, even when you make it to the top universities, you still need to sell drugs and destroy your black communities and lives. Getting lil n**** shot up for you." I know there are plenty of people who did shady things they felt they needed to do to get by while in the Hood, but once they were out they DIDN'T return to destructive ways.

The high school security guard is the same OG from The Wood, the blood gang "Stacey" who appears to turn his life around and takes a regular job is MORE of a role model than his Harvard connection that stayed in the drug game. It gets WORST! *Another SPOILER* At the end Malcolm blackmails or outsmarts Austin and convinces him to get him into Harvard by threatening to expose his drug operation. He somehow outsmarts an older OG and elite Harvard alum grad. Then in his STUPID essay to Harvard he talks about selling drugs in this "woe is me, I'm from the hood" fashion. He gets into Harvard through blackmailing Austin and crappy essay. The attempt to be "DEEP" or profound made me want to walk out because he was justifying selling dope and the end climax scene PALED in Comparison to 90's movie classics like Boyz N the Hood, Higher Learning and Above the Rim. The irony is that the male lead character "Malcolm" looks like Ricky from Boyz N the Hood (1991) who had a football scholarship to get out the hood (but died before he could). Ricky chose sports as his way out the hood. Malcolm's way out was selling dope in pill form on the Internet. This movie does the COMPLETE opposite of what classic 90's hood/urban movies taught us, but yet the main cast are 90's obsessed nerds???

Another part that was unrealistic and just plain stupid is when the nerd Malcolm pulls out a gun with shaking nervous hands on the Blood gangster leader at night in the hood on the street. Then the gang lead backs off scared of him. What "blood" gangster is UNARMED in the hood, in the worst side of Cali at night???! Later at the end, that same Blood leader nods at him in respect to give him "props." The gang leader doesn't challenge him seeing he is obviously shaking and most likely wouldn't shoot. He also doesn't retaliate being punked in front of his gang crew. YEAH OKAY SURE!

I will end with this: "Dope" was not DOPE! It did not have the "Jazz" (A Tribe Called Quest) or "JUICE" (1992 movie)! Read in between the lines. Don't be simple.

I love me some Donnie Yen but this movie sucked. It hurt my feelings. The movie starts out strong with the war beginning and plot centered on the tension between Chinese and Japanese similar to the first IP man. So it starts out promising but leads to a great disappointment. I don't understand how this movie could fail so much with a strong cast. The villain was a strong lead...wait yes I do, THE PLOT SUCKED!

What really urked my EVERY LASTING NERVE was that the love connection that was supposed to be there between Chen Zhen (Donnie) and the girl Fang Qing was NEVER really there...AT ALL. It was never established and dragged the entire plot down. She was drunk the entire movie. He catches her packing a gun and suspiciously takes a photo that exposes him then *drum roll*...he LETS HER GO!?

This low down, drunken, pretty girl betrayed Chen Zhen, exposed his identity to the Colonel antagonist, ultimately leading to the brutal deaths of his fellow comrades from back in the war, had his sister beat up and violently raped by the enemy Colonel, also Chen Zhen is butt naked from head to toe while being brutally beat with knife knuckles and whipped to the brim point of DEATH.....then are we supposed to FEEL a connection or a lost for him when she dies???! Other than surface physical attraction there was nothing really worth there that amounted to his lost.

A super hero is supposed to be clever, diligent and always alert. He was P*SSY WHIPPED in this movie! Donnie's awesome movie track record, reputation, fighting and charisma could not save this film. The only cool part is that he did channel some Bruce Lee in there with the noises and techniques that Bruce would do.

If you're sick of the Left Behind movie series or cheesy Christian movies that are inaccurate Biblically or the annoying pre- tribulation vs post-trib rapture grand debate, then WATCH THIS MOVIE PLEASE! This is by FAR the MOST accurate for biblical prophecy and REALISTIC portrayal of the effects of war and future technology.

I like that this movie ignores and skips the whole pre-tribulation rapture perspective that is repeated OVER and OVER in most Christian movies unfortunately. The entire movie does refer to prophecy scriptures that become evident and fulfilled as the movie unfolds. The direction of the plot was clever and had an intelligent sequence twist. Very well done! I won't spoil it. The main lead actors were convincing. I liked Ben Davies, Jennifer Cooper, Michael Ulmer, Lee Garrett and a few others. Unfortunately Eric Roberts is NOT a believable antichrist villain in this movie to be honest.

This movie shows very realistic situations. For example, the government can track people within minutes and in times of government resistance there will always be groups of "rebels" with weapons when they see their rights are stripped and forced away by the government. Regardless of your spiritual background, you can imagine this would really happen when watching this movie. Please consider watching this movie even if you don't consider yourself a Christian or a believer of anything.

If you feel that you're secure in what you believe then watching this movie shouldn't make you hostile or angry. Hopefully it will make you think and touch your heart. Ignore the reviews that are overly harsh and bash this movie out of anger. Only the militant anti-religious do that because in this movie it paints a picture that you actually become a SLAVE to the World System, EVEN when one thinks they're free by not ascribing to a religion or a spiritual identity. It struck the EGO to those who feel superior to others when they boast about not having a religion or spiritual background.

Note: The first Left Behind was okay. My comment was referring to movies after that. Agape and respect to Kirk Cameron.