The second trailer for DC’s Suicide Squad has landed with more that six months to go before the release of the dark comic book movie adaptation and it’s stoking the burning embers of expectation even more than the first. The musical montage is more of a fast-paced bullet fire of mini clips from the film and while you see a fair amount of the action it’s so fleeting that it only makes us want to see it even more, rather than giving too much of the game away.
In terms of best bits, top of the list is that it’s been set to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, which works as the perfect accompaniment to the wild and flamboyant intentions of the film. The rock opera fires along with the rising and falling pace of the trailer, showing the potential subtleties, clever interplay of role reversal and the challenge of the anti-hero status of the team of villains sent out to wage war on crime. It also taps into the seething malevolence and mayhem of Jared Leto’s Joker, which is shaping up to be yet another unique interpretation of the iconic supervillain.
One thing’s pretty clear from the official trailer, and that’s the importance of Harley Quinn to the overall development of the comic book adventure. Played by the brilliant Margot Robbie (Focus), she dominates every scene and looks like the living embodiment of the popular baddie with a very grungie interpretation of the character.
In the comic book world she’s always been Joker’s psycho bunny side-kick princess, but here it would appear that she’ll be on the opposite side of the battle line, but we’ll be surprised if she doesn’t go rogue before the end of the film. The couple of lines that she has in the trailer, including the genius of “we’re bad guys”, are sharp, funny and dark, so she should be one the characters to look out for when the Suicide Squad release date comes around in August 2016.
We’re not entirely convinced by the look and feel of Killer Croc in the trailers as he looks a bit too blocky to come across as being a genuine monster maniac, which is how we’re more used to seeing him in the comic books. He’s played by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Thor: The Dark World), so maybe he’ll be able to make the character work despite the limitations of the crocodile makeover.
The good news though is that the trailer features some cool teaser shots of flame throwing implement of muerte, El Diablo, as he warms up the trailer with his incendiary fists of doom. Enchantress also looks pretty epic when in her full dead-eyed, witch possessed freakiness and Clara Delevingne (Paper Towns) seems to have done a good job of bringing the character to life, so to speak.
You get a few more glimpses of Will Smith (After Earth) as ace gunslinger, Deadshot, and Joel Kinnerman (RoboCop (2014)) as army man Rick Flag, who look like the more serious side of the ramshackle Squad. However, despite playing it a little bit close to their chest, there are a couple of wild moments for Jai Courtney (Terminator Genysis) as Aussie head banger, Boomerang, who we’re going out on a limb with to say he may be a secret gem.
If all of the amazing characters aren’t enough to get you electro-convulsive with excited about then the none-stop barrage of action and intensity that flicks by in the trailer should do the trick. There’s everything from stream after stream of gunfire, helicopter gunship rocket blasts, underground trains being smashed to smithereens, fast car chases and a cacophony of explosions, and we can’t wait to see it all unleashed in all all its glory later in the year. Check out the official Suicide Squad trailer below to see it all for yourself.
