Suicide Squad: Special Edition

Loved this update, the yellow subtitles looks a lot better than the previous ones, changing the relationship between Enchantress and Incubus is a really good improvement, less cringey. I also liked the meeting between Waller and Bruce Wayne, in that version Waller si no more afraid of the consequences and do not rely on Batman, in fact, now she has an advantage on him, which makes her way more fearsome. And it also removes a continuity error that leads to the sequel, now that Wayne is no longer threatening to shut down the Task Force X program.

It's been awhile since I watched the original but my god this cut blew me away. The new subtitles regarding Apokolips was ingenious and really enjoyed the efficiency in storytelling. Less joker, less Enchantress. Sucks we will never see the Ayer cut but this is the way to watch the film.

Maybe it's just been the edits I've been watching but this was the first where I didn't notice any flaws in the video or audio. It also included subtitles which is a big plus.

A very very bad movie, turning into a pretty good one and a solid DCEU piece, this is not just a well executed edition, it's a miracle, well done!

No need to rehash what other, better reviewers have already said, but briefly, this is a sharp, purposeful edit that goes a very long way towards creating a clearer, more singular vision and redeeming this film. It looks and sounds great, to boot. Bravo!

Though it may sound like damning with faint praise to call this edit of Suicide Squad "astonishly coherent," anyone who has seen the original cut will know that Wakeupkeo has worked a bonafide miracle by forcing this movie into somehow ACTUALLY MAKING SENSE. The editing on the original film is some of the worst I've ever seen, introducing over a dozen characters while ping-ponging around in time and space, and asking the audience to buy into all the magic, super-science and political paranoia of a half-baked grim-and-gritty superhero cinematic universe. The beloved Suicide Squad comic worked and was subversive because it was built on the foundation of nearly 50 years of superhero tropes and back story and continuity. The film adaptation was working from a couple of bleak Superman movies that established a tiny corner of what is apparently a world filled-to-overflowing with superpowered beings, most of whom are psychotic (and not just the bad guys).

Original sins of the concept aside, Keo has worked a great deal of magic with the flow of the movie, and while certain aspects of the Flagg/Enchantress storyline are unavoidably tied to jerky time-jumps, so much of the movie has been streamlined that it is possible to discover anew the virtues of the film, from inventive villain effects, to clever sequences, to some surprisingly deft and fun characterization. Thanks to some very canny subtitle-tweaking, the film even manages to fulfill an important plot function within the larger DCEU.

My only real complaint about the edit itself (and one I'm surprised to be making) is the lack of Jared Leto's Joker. While I'm glad that his annoying and derivative characterization of "Mr. J" has been shortened and largely relegated to Harley's mercifully brief flashbacks, his quest to track down Harley seems interspersed with the main narrative in a slightly haphazard way and felt like it needed a bit more massaging to pay off properly when Joker tracks her down. As it stands, I don't recall it being completely clear what Joker's goal even is until Harley starts getting texts from him.

In all though, one of the worst superhero films of the century has been rescued to a form that is remarkably enjoyable, occasionally moving and certainly sits well alongside one's DCEU fanedits of choice, not to mention the excellent James Gunn follow-up.