Actor Joel Kinnaman Calls THE SUICIDE SQUAD 'Insane' and James Gunn's Best Movie by Far
Fans have been waiting a long freaking time for James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad to finally hit theaters. We are only two months away now from the release of this big summer blockbuster, and one star of the movie, Joel Kinnaman, has spoken out about the film, which he got to see the final cut of.
Kinnaman is one of the few actors to reprise his role from the 2016 dud Suicide Squad, and he returns as Rick Flag. After catching the film at a recent screening, the actor told Variety:
We saw it a couple days ago. It’s insane. It’s by far James Gunn’s best movie.
He went on to add:
It just takes it to another level. It’s an insane film. At the same time, it was very much the movie that I thought it was going to be because the vision was so clear from the beginning. While we were shooting it, it was so clear what we were doing. It’s so entertaining. I’m of course hopelessly biased, but I found it to be one of the most entertaining films I’ve ever seen. From A to Z, it’s so well paced, it has such a drive and such comedic timing. It’s funny along the way the whole time, effortlessly. But then I think what really surprised me was I was struck by was how well it flowed, but also how he was able to create these little bubbles, these little moments of emotional depth and visual and emotional poetry. And I felt like it really transcended the genre, and it became something bigger. And then it’s also very silly, and ridiculous in many ways and super violent. Just gory almost at times. And it has shocking moments, but they are very comedic. At the end of the movie, it’s completely normal seeing this giant shark just standing gnawing on a person’s head, and some of the people just having a conversation next to it… When you’re one hour and 50 minutes into ‘Suicide Squad,’ that’s going to feel completely normal. It’s so irreverent.
He also talked about the let-down that was the 2016 movie, Suicide Squad:
I thought the first 40 minutes of the film was fucking great, and then there were conflicting visions and it just didn’t end up being what we all hoped it was. It didn’t feel like the movie that we hoped we were going to make, and this is something very different. …It’s just a different universe. It’s a James Gunn universe. It’s a very hilarious and depraved place.
As a huge fan of Gunn, I can’t wait to see this movie! He really brought such a new, fun take to the MCU with his Guardians of the Galaxy movies, I have a lot of faith that The Suicide Squad, in theaters on August 6th, will be great. Are you getting excited?