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I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I couldn't help but stack this against the live action Suicide Squad movie. Even though the plot is quite different, I wanted to see how they handled character introductions and story setup. In both those aspects this movie is miles ahead of Suicide Squad. The character introductions take up less than 10 minutes and are efficient yet fun. The setup for the story is straight-forward as well and doesn't get bogged down with too many characters.I fully admit to not know what was taken from the comics story-wise but I was kind of fascinated how the Suicide Squad movie does include a lot of the same elements. The Joker does make an appearance but it makes much more sense to include him as he is a part of the main storyline. Batman is in a few minutes too which is explained because he is busy with another problem but does have some bearing on the story.I thought the squad was a lot of fun and the movie didn't lose me until they released everyone at Arkham and then it was just a super-villain fest. It's worth seeing if only to lament what could have been a good Suicide Squad live-action movie if they took more cues from this.

I liked the live action movie by David Ayers with Will Smith and Margo Robbie but this animated one, released 2 years before the live action one is much better. What makes this one better then the Ayer's one is the great writing. They simply did a better job at putting together a strong story then Ayers did. With the Ayers movie it felt like they had good characters but never were able to make the story come together. This movie succeeds at that tremendously. This is a movie that is able to somehow make the riddler and the joker(my two favorite batman villains) both be the main villain and make it work perfectly. It was a cool idea making the riddler be the reason why Waller needs the squad. Also I love that the actor from criminal minds who plays Spencer Reid is voicing the riddler. Perfect casting. Unlike the live action one the squad is shown to be a top secrete off the books covert assignment, which is the way the squad is suppose to be. Not that we need them to protect us from a evil superman. The film wastes no time and gets right into it. They do a great job at setting up the riddler and Waller then we get a quick and nice introduction to the squad. Their mission is simple and it has a nice plot twist that makes sense and makes riddler more important to the plot. The film also does a good job at balancing it's characters, with the live action movie it kind of felt like the deadshot and Harley Quinn show while the other characters were sideline. This film showcases everyone nicely and does this without giving us a whole lot of(if any) backstory for the characters. The movie has a nice heist element as we seem them try to break into Arkham. Something that was lacking in the live action one. Also one of my problems with the Ayers movie was that the villains weren't villainous enough but here we see them turn against each other and are never really depicted as being heroes. I also like the overall more edge this movie has compare to the Ayers movie. Another problem I had with the Ayers movie was the lack of Joker. However in this movie we get to see much more joker and I like how he works in the movie. He's not the main focus but still important to the story. I like how this movie never really gives us an official main villain. It's basically just a movie with a bunch of bad guys and batman in the middle of everything but it's woven together so nicely it never feels convoluted. We also get cameos by other batman villains. Also I really like this interpretation of Harley Quinn, Hayden Welch voice is great I think they captured her personality perfectly. I also like Troy Baker as the Joker. I honestly thought it was Mark Hammil doing the voice. I also love the animation it almost felt like a live action movie. One of my favorites from D.C. animation!

Assault on Arkham is meant as a prequel to the events that occurred during the Arkham video game trilogy. Waller has collected some villains to help her take back top secret information from the Riddler. The Squad most infiltrate Arkham Asylum, find the Riddler and get the device before reveals the secrets to even worse villains.This film really does a good job at capturing how expendable each character is to the mission. At any moment someone could die and the team just has to move to the next objective. This is even tougher because the writers of the movie actually created relationships between characters so the loss hits them and the audience more. Even with all the serious moments there is also funny dialogue exchanged, mainly from Captain Boomerang and King Shark. There are no characters that are left in the background either. Mostly everyone gets a fair amount of screen time in order to fully bring their personality to the audience. I thought this would be heavy movie on Deadshot and Harley, but that was not the case. The biggest enjoyment I got was Harley as that was probably my favorite depiction of her that I have seen. She had the right amount of sweet with a side of insane.Action scenes were fun for the most part, as there was a scene or two where they maybe went a little to over the top even for an animation movie.This was a fun watch and if you are a fan of the Suicide Squad, you most definitely have to see this.

You remember Escape from NY (or its descendant/sequel Escape from LA)? In that you had Snake Plissken given the task of going into the deadly terrain new New York City in the year 1997 (yeah it was back in the day), but before Plissken, an arch criminal and once decorated war hero, could go into the City he was given a certain drug/device which would kill him if he didn't complete his task. Of course the stakes got raised in the film, but it wouldn't have worked if it had been some other character who was less of a bad-ass, or one who you didn't believe when they turn to the guy sending him on the message and say "When I come back, I'm going to kill you." Assault on Arkham is basically that story with about 7 or 8 more criminals (I forget how many, the list is quite long), and they all make up what's dubbed the "Suicide Squad", which has been a thing in the comics for a while and will be a feature film in summer 2016.This may actually work as a strong primer for that film, and I have to wonder if the story will be able to trump this if only on the basis of the directness of the mission: Amanda Waller puts this group together (it's uncertain if they've worked together before but my guess is an emphatic no) and they are fit with explosive devices in their neck. They will activate if they - including people like Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang (that's his name, no, really), King Shark, Black Spider and Killer Frost (maybe that's it, I might be forgetting someone) - don't retrieve a device that Edward Nygma has in his cane that could be a thing that has that MacGuffin ring to it. In other words, get the object in Arkham 'undercover' and get out. Of course the twist is that this group can't really do it that way, since they are rough bastards and killers and mercenaries and psychos (the funniest of the lot being Harley Quinn, or just the most unpredictable by way of being Joker's former fling, which comes into play in this story).I haven't mentioned Batman yet because he is actually a supporting character here - why he is on the DVD box-art is, I assume, because people like King Shark and Killer Frost are basically total unknowns (there's even a threat/taunt from one character to another as a "C-Lister"), and most people wouldn't purchase it unless the main attraction got featured. But Batman does play a role that serves as... well, someone has to stop the madness that Arkham will release, right? The fun and entertainment of the story comes from this group, and the twists and turns that the story invariably takes; what is Nygma *really* up to; does the Joker really have a dirty bomb; can electro-shock treatment really undo the buzzers that will kill the Squad; how many ice puns can be thrown about (actually, it's just one, but the reaction of one character to the pun is about perfect as possible).There's some wonderful action and intense fights, a relatively new (very good) replacement for Mark Hammil as the voice of the Joker, and maybe just a little too much in the way of being so edgy to get a PG-13 (the language is somewhat expected, not so much the sex, but hey whatever, kids gotta learn sometime). The only downside is that the story, despite having these fun stakes and it being a Dirty Dozen plot, doesn't make as much of a lasting impression as other stories with villains (Under the Red Hood and the Return of the Joker come to mind). Assault on Arkham thankfully doesn't resemble a video game as far as animation - that is left to the consoles - but when one steps back it kind of doesn't seem as sharp as it might have been, despite (or because of) the twists and turns, which seem a little obvious in retrospect. And unless you're Harley Quinn or Deadshot, most of the characters are forgettable, and clearly a character like Killer Frost or King Shark seem like obvious nods(maybe so obvious as to border on satire?) to Mr. Freeze and Killer Croc.All the same, it gives you some entertainment for 75 minutes and it has meaty, badass dialog in spurts. If you're a hardcore fan of Suicide Squad stories perhaps it'll be the bees knees. For the casual comics fan it's a brisk, bloody primer - and I do mean bloody (they push that PG-13 for all its worth, and I imagine after Deadpool this will be R-rated stuff some day, but I digress).