La Svergognata: The Shameless Woman

Shame on you Leonora!

1974 marks the year the world witnessed the debut of Leonora Fani in the film industry, the sexploitation film industry to be more precise. Directed by the rather unknown Giuliano Biagetti who worked as director, writer and producer of Italian erotic films, he is known for Decameroticus & directing Gloria Guida in La Novizia. La Svergognata AKA The Shameless Woman, AKA La Desvergonzada, can be best described as a forbidden love story between a married couple, their horny teenage daughter and a former lover. Although the film has been officially released on DVD in Italy, such release is currently out of print and there are no international official editions available as of yet. Unfortunately, the available copies that are online,  feature neither English subtitles nor dubbing of any language, so I guess it's  a good time for you to pay a little visit to your local Italian Culture Center and sign for an Italian language course. 

La Svergognata is starred by Philippe Leroy (who looks like The Flash's John Wesley-Shipp) as Fabio Lorenzi; Leonora Fani as Ornella Bernardi and last but not least, blonde bombshell Barbara Bouchet as Silvia Lorenzi (yes, Fabio's wife)

I'm your wife Fabio, of course I'll take anal!

I'm your teenage craving Fabio, of course I'll swallow!

In a nutshell, La Svergognata is about a writer (Philip Leroy)comes to stay at an island resort and gets involved with a teenage lolita (Fani) who is there with her parents and rather malicious best friend. She teases the older man mercilessly--going to a hotel and dancing with him naked and then suddenly getting dressed and running off to a party with a young American guy. But it's not so much because she is malicious, but because she is really an insecure virgin. Finally, he gives up on her after his beautiful wife (Barbara Bouchet) shows up. But the younger woman becomes jealous and is not going to give up so easily. So, essentially this film is about a malicious love triangle that has a poor man making the hardest decision of his life: Is it Barbara Bouchet's blonde and experienced beauty the best? or is it Fani's malicious teenage teasing?

In the past, we reviewed many films about the same love triangle/forbidden love story line, and as a matter of fact, most of the sexploitation movies from the 60's, 70's & 80's were mostly based upon  teenage characters craving sex, something that allowed many beautiful actresses to rise to stardom through making a few of these films. Names like Christina Lindberg, Ornella Muti, Gloria Guida, Laura Antonelli, Peggy Church, Marie Liljedhal and Solveig Andersson  are only a few I can think of right now as actresses that portrayed horny teenage girls more than once throughout their careers. 

a walk on the beach keeps the dick craving away.

I'm confused, do men want me?

So, is La Svergognata just another teensploitation in an extended list of rip offs?

Yes and no depending on what your personal standards define a movie as worth watching or a total waste of time. Philippe Leroy & Barbara Bouchet (despite showing up only after half of the movie is done, and not as naked as she's been in other films) certainly deliver in their roles. Leroy is a bored writer who's lost inspiration long ago, while Bouchet  is his believable wife. Leonora Fani, on the other hand, is a newcomer to the world of acting on screen, and yet, her role as malicious teen Ornella is skillfully carried out, I might add.  Nevertheless, the film's plot is highly derivative and won't bring any refreshing ideas to a genre, that although it was on its peak in the early 70's, it quickly hit rock bottom by the end of the decade. In its defense, I'd say La Svergognata is neither a pretentious film nor an avant garde softcore film desguised as art. In addition, its running time is only 78 minutes, so it doesn't beat around the bushes. So by the time, Fabio's wife arrives on the island, things go south pretty quickly, and just before he can give Ornella a good fuck, his wife gives him a hard time and leaves. Unfortunately, Ornella is more of a tease than a slut, so after she is confronted  by Silvia, she decides to call it a day too, leaving our poor infamous main character with blue balls.

I wanna suck it.

Uhm, nope, now I don't want to.

La Svergognata was filmed in its entirety on the beautiful island of Ischia, near Naples. Most of the outdoor scenes are stunning just for the fact they were filmed on the island. The cinematography of the film was in charge of Antonio Borghesi (a regular in Biagetti's flicks). The music was composed and arranged by Berto Pisano, who worked mostly making music for horror films. His most remembered work is 1981's Burial Ground: The nights of Terror.

Although the film premiered only in Italy in 1974, the film was internationally released in Spain & Greece. The film never made it to American theaters. However, the VHS tape release, made it a very popular cult film during the 80's outside of Europe. If you're lucky enough, you can still find copies of it around the internet. The only known releases of the film were the original Italian version (bootlegged as is) and a Spanish dubbed version, so a second language diploma may not seem that useless now.

The Spanish dubbed VHS.

Good girl! you swallowed it to the last drop!

Author Susan Bassnett wrote the book Feminist Experiences (RLE Feminis Theory) in 1986. In such book, she has a few lines for Leonora Fani: 

Section 2 opens with an interview with Leonora Fani, an actress who has appeared in box-office pornographic movies, one of which featured her having intercourse with a large dog. Leonora Fani defends her work with the now traditional "they don't have to see it if they don't want to" line...

Now, let's straighten things up. First, Leonora Fani has never worked in a pornographic film. Her movies are either known as softcore or erotic films. The 1975 porn film "Calde Labbra" features a brief intervention by her, but it has nothing to do with real sex. Second, she's right, if you don't like her movies don't fucking watch them, and that's it! She was an erotic film actress and nude model because she chose to, she wasn't forced to do it. The 70's were a very different time and age where society was opened to every source of entertainment with almost no restrictions. She was a part of it, she didn't conspire against women to become sex objects. 

There's nothing wrong with erotic films, you know.

To each his own ma'am!

Overall, La Svergognata's relevance is evidently the fact that it marks Leonora Fani's debut in the world of the erotic film genre. Plotwise, it's the same story that has been told way too many times and in some cases with better production or a more sex centered focused plot that may be more interesting to certain viewers. So, as a teenage love story, lame. As an erotic movie, a little less lame, and as the debut of a young Italian actress, well, it can't get any better than this. Sharing on screen time with experienced actors (Leroy & Bouchet) is priceless. Thanks to the popularity this film got her in Italy, she was able of nailing around 15 roles in different sexploitation films. If we were to rank all of her films, our ranking would be as follows:

1.Pensione Paura

2.Nene

3.Giallo a Venezia (yes, you read that right)
4.Bestialitá (yes, you read that right too! it's our next review!)

5.The Last Round
6.Naked Massacre
7.La Svergognata
8.Eden no Sono
9.The Private Lesson (yet to be reviewed)
10.Sensitivita.

Bare in mind she worked in more films but in very minor roles.

Barbara Bouchet.

Leonora Fani.

Finally we move to our video section with some very audiovisual material. 

Here's the movie trailer:



Here's the main theme from the soundtrack:



And here's the entire film (Italian only) courtesy of YouTube:

Eden No Sono: The Garden of Eden

Sex & youth.

Eden no Sono AKA The Garden of Eden, is a 1980 Japanese-Italian film written & directed by Yasuzo Masumura. The film is very similar to the world famous The Blue Lagoon, a teenage sexploitation film released the same year and starred by the then nude and under aged Brooke Shields. Another similar film is Il Sole Nella Pelle, the Italian sexploitation filmed starred by Ornella Muti circa 1975-1977 (IMDB's date is wrong, it wasn't made in 1972 and you can read all about in our review of it clicking on the blue link)  So, whether today's film in review is a rip off of the rip off, I guess we'll never know. However, what we do know is that this film is the last film in which Leonora Fani had a starring role. From Eden no Sono on, her career was reduced to mere cameos in softcore & hardcore films, thus misleading viewers into thinking she actually did porn, which she actually didn't. 

Anyways, The Garden of Eden is the story of two opposites who are inevitably attracted, thus breaking the barrier of social class. Alessandra (Fani) is an art student, the daughter of a very wealthy family, while Michele (Ronni Valente) comes from a poor family with a tradition for pick pocketing and stealing. Michele doesn't go to school, nor he has any job, so he spends his days visiting highly populated areas in Rome in order to pick pocket something of value to bring home to her vicious mother & brothers. One day, he goes to the art school where Alessandra is in and voila! steals her purse in the blink of an eye. She goes home totally unaware of the act. Once Michele goes home, he's given a hard time by his uncomprehending  mother who tells him, he's not worth of food since he never brings anything of real value. This, pisses him off in the most adolescent way, thus promising his twisted family he will make it big sooner than later. In addition, there's a nonsensical background story about his father being a fisherman who "stole from the sea", thus making his surviving family fishermen who steal in a "sea of people".

Meet Alessandra, the art student.

Meet Michele, the pick pocket.

While the first hour of the film can be easily described as predictable, derivative and plain boring, let me tell you, the second half of the film makes this teenage romance sexploitation flick easily outdo other similar films. While Michele, offers Alessandra to find a mysterious Greek vase  a friend of his has found nearby, he soon realizes he can leave his stealing past behind and live a new life next to his beloved Alessandra, if she agrees to follow of course.

All the cliched teenage love discovery items are on the film, yet we don't really get to see Leonora Fani in many nude scenes. Also the sex scenes are very brief and there really isn't much going on visually, at least. Fani fans know she's spent way more nude time in all of her previous films, but here on The Garden of Eden, she's given the opportunity of spending more time acting, thus diminishing her nude scenes up to a few shots, necessary for her character development. 

So, who's this boy you've been seeing lately.

Fuck the rich girl as much as you want but, do get us some money next time.

Although The Garden of Eden  can be certainly described as a sexploitation film, it's real value lies in the plot & character development. Once, Michele & Alessandra are living together on the beach, there's a very interesting plot twist happening. You see, Michele's family think he's actually kidnapped the rich girl, in order to ask a lot of money for her ransom, but since they haven't heard from him lately, his older brother decides to find him and pay him a little visit. Once this happens, Michele tells his brother he doesn't give a fuck about what they think, and that his days of crime are long over because he's found true love. Unfortunately, his elder brother and family are smarter than he thinks, so they sort of, get in the way in order to cash in and pretend they're the actual kidnappers of the poor rich girl. 

Unaware of this, Alessandra spends her days fucking Michele dry, while swimming in the nude, to fuck some more on the beach. In addition, she teaches him, in the nude, all she knows about painting, while they fuck some more. A pity, the film maker didn't add more sex scenes to the film, since Fani is not a stranger to sexploitation. Anyways, they seem to live a pretty happy life: They have peace, they live in a magnificent secluded beach, they spend 24/7 naked and what's more important, they feed off of each others' sex. 

Runaway or kidnapping?

Not really, she's actually fucking all the time!

Alessandra's parents, utterly worried about her, spend some money on newspaper prints with the description of the kidnapper and info on how and when she disappeared. On the other hand, Michele's family is already blackmailing the poor wealthy family asking for a lot money in case they want to see their daughter alive once more.

The Garden of Eden, like most of Leonora Fani's films is currently out of print and there aren't any plans on future releases on, so the only way to watch it is by either streaming services or bootleggers. Either way, the best available version of the film is the English dubbed edition with hard-coded Greek subtitles.  While, I'm always supportive of the idea of watching films in their original language, dubbed versions are usually found easier. The version I watched was terribly dubbed in English but you know what? almost every dub movie I've seen suffers the same unfaithful faith. The problem is, dialog is way more cheesier than originally intended, and some of the idioms, figurative speech & slang sound weird or unnatural, thus giving you the impression the acting quality on this movie couldn't get any worse.

I'm hungry, I need some of your cum.

And maybe you can have some of my pussy juices.

If dialog is cheesy, wait until you pay attention to the background music composed by Stelvio Cipriani (known for his work on a Bay of Blood, Death Proof and more recently The Man from U.N.C.L.E. remake), a man who surely knows what he's doing because he delivers a soundtrack that perfectly accompanies the teenage couple throughout the film on their coming of age adventure while the unexpected grand finale is around the bend. 

Once Michele's family gets the money they want, his older brother (strangely enough, the only characters with an actual name on the film are those of Alessandra and Michele only) returns to the beach to give his brother some money for having casually given them the idea for the job of their lives. Of course, this leads to a violent confrontation between brothers all the while, Alessandra is scared as fuck because she knows Michele's brother wants a piece of her ass. Fortunately, the cops followed Michele's brother and in a very confusing action sequence Alessandra is rescued while Michele & his family are arrested and sent to jail for plotting the kidnap.

Why don't you paint me with your cum Michele?

This whole art is getting me really horny Alessandra.

By the 1980's the teenage sexploitation genre had grown tired of itself, and movie producers efforts didn't truly help in the making of new master pieces of the genre. Had The Garden of Eden being released in the early 70's, it may have ended up being a cult film but, since that wasn't the case, the film tries too hard and delivers very little in the end. The concept of living a hippie life out of love and mother nature was already a worn out story by the late 70's. In addition, the coming of age concept was also entirely over used, and only the porn industry would keep on using it to sell their "virgin gone wild" stories starred by actresses that clearly looked nothing like a teenage girl. Still, being the final film in which Leonora Fani worked, it may be a good farewell movie in which she was allowed to spend more time dressed up than she used to in all of her previous films. Unfortunately, the way her character is written, doesn't really up her game as a skilled actress.

Overall, The Garden of Eden, doesn't offer much on original story telling as well as sex and nudity, so if you're looking for one or the other (or both) you may want to look for another movie instead. For Leonora Fani fans, this film is clearly a must watch, since it's her last movie. For casual movie enthusiasts I think you should watch Ornella Muti's Il Sole Nella Pelle instead (better story & better acting) For sexploitation fans, well this movie is mildly a sexploitation film so, nope, keep looking.

After all the semen I've swallowed it was about time you gave me a ring!

a behind the scenes photo from the film.

Will this film ever see the light of an official release? I doubt it, since her most popular films are either out of print or not officially released as of yet. However, we still have plenty of Leonora Fani movies left for reviewing. The next entries will cover her debut film, 1974's La Svergognata (The Shameless Woman), 1975's Bestialitá (Bestiality, maybe her most shocking film ever), 1975's Lezione Private (Private Lessons) & 1975's porno film Calde Labbra (Burning Lips) So, stay tuned as our blog is the only blog (and website for that matter) in the whole world covering her career with very detailed information, so yeah, we want to be the official unofficial guide to all things Leonora Fani.

No movie trailer this time, better luck next time I guess.

Eat your vegetables!

Sensitivita: The House by the Edge of the Lake

The Spanish poster, my favorite.

After a strictly commercial review (see? a Frank Zappa gratuitous reference) we return to our latest obsession: Italian beauty Leonora Fani. Today's entry is 1979's sex horror  flick Sensitivitá (Sensitivity) AKA The House by the Edge of the Lake, The Last House Near the Lake, Witch of the Lake & Diabla, among others. There's a censored made for TV version of the film known as Kira: The House Near the Lake. We strongly recommend you to skip that version by all means. Our review was made after watching the never released before director's cut of the film. Yes, we are connoisseurs, we know our way into the world of obscure cult films. 

 

Despite being recognized as an Italian sexploitation actress, Leonora Fani has worked in very different films ranging from straight shocking sexploitation to romance movies. However, there isn't a single film where she hasn't appeared nude or screwing, leading viewers into questioning her acting skills. Nonetheless, she is an actress and has proven so in many of her films as both lead or support cast. Anyways, let her films do the talking. 

a Burning hand emerges.

a Murdering monk.

Sensitivita may not be one of the greatest Italian horror films ever made but, since it's starred by our goddess Leonora Fani, it's worth the watch. Directed by Enzo G. Castellari, known for action films like Keoma, 1990: The Bronx Warriors, Cold Eyes of Fear & Warriors of the Wasteland admitted some years ago that this wasn't one of his best directing jobs since he didn't had an active role in the filming of Sensitivita. Nevertheless, his  filmography is hit and miss, specially miss.

A young university student "Lillian" (Fani) returns to her family's country villa near a lake where years earlier her mother drowned. She is supposedly researching a local legend, a witch called Kira (Caterina Boratto) and a strange symbol associated with her. However, our heroine spends a lot less time at the library than she does flat on her back fucking all local guys. Nevertheless, there is a catch: whenever she cums, she faints (and not out of sexual exhaustion I might add) into a trance and some horrible fate befalls her sex partners (a car accident, a drowning etc.) Naturally, there's a lot of talk in the town about this strange, slutty outsider girl (but she still never seems to lack for willing sex partners). "Lillian" also seems to have some kind of weird relationship with a retarded girl named "Lilith"(Patricia Adriani), who is always spying on Lilian's sexual escapades and masturbating whenever she has sex (which makes for quite a rigorous masturbation schedule). Meanwhile, Kira, the witch also seems to be hanging around. And Lillian's own mother, though generally unseen except in the prologue, is referred to by the locals as the "lady in the lake". And if four weird women isn't enough, there's also a little, local blind girl who tears the heads off her dolls and says a lot of cryptic things.

Bouncing tits speak louder than words.

I want to masturbate so badly!

Evidently, Sensitivita is not Enzo Castellari's best film by a long-shot. But,  the visual style is clearly the best element of the film. Castellari makes this nonsense horror look & feel as scary as possible, and despite the numerous sex scenes (which we're not complaining about, keep 'em coming Leonora!), he manages to maintain a suspense atmosphere despite the many misleading softcore sexploitation tricks the film has. With the possible exceptions of "Pensione Paura" & "Nene", this is probably Leanora Fani's classiest film. To some,  this may not be saying much for an actress who starred in a movie with the self-explanatory title "Naked Massacre", in the under rated kitsch "Giallo a Venezia", in the deranged "Beastialita" (we're saving this film review for last), and even in some hardcore porn films (although she was not actually a hardcore actress). Anyways, we see Leonora Fani as a daring actress who had the, uhm, pubes, to film a varied range of films that not only got her into the annals of  Italian sexploitation but also, allowed her to be internationally recognized by her now obscure and hard to find filmography. And what the hell! is 2016! and we're still promoting her films 42 years after her debut! (La Svergognata, another of our forthcoming reviews)

 

Italian horror films are generally well known for choosing visual style and atmosphere over logical plotting and realistic dialogue, but in the 1970's these films became increasingly over-the-top stylistically and often downright nonsensical. Of course, they also tended to paper over all the gaping plot holes with copious, and often even ridiculous, amounts of sex and nudity. 

I'm gonna cum all over your face babe!

Please don't cum inside.

By now, I'm sure you've all realized this film hasn't been officially released on DVD or Blu Ray, you know, those ugly screen caps come from an 8mm film that must have been poorly digitized ages ago. Will an official release ever see the light? I don't know and in a way, I don't think so since, there isn't much value to add to the horror genre here. Obviously, Leonora Fani fans, like you and I, will most certainly try to find every film she's been into no matter how crappy the quality of the copy you can get your hands on. After all is Leonora Fani! 

Horror fans won't miss much if they decide not to watch this film. However, there are a few scenes here and there that might leave you wondering "Oh my! did others stole ideas from this movie to create their own 80's slasher blockbusters?"  We may never know the answer, as perhaps such scenes are merely coincidences and not straight rip offs, but you never know. American film makers have "borrowed" a lot of ideas from their European & Asian counterparts.

Leonora Fani, Italian beauty.

Are you talking to me?

Overall, Sensitivita, is an OK sexploitation horror film with lots of nudity and sex, of course, Leonora Fani makes the difference big time. On the horror side of things, there are a lot of better films out there. Advisable to Fani fans and horror enthusiasts who are looking to complete their obscure film collections.

Here's the Spanish dubbed trailer:

 

Suicide Squad

Yeah! another superhe...I mean super criminal film!

Yeehaw! another superhero movie! Oh my God! so excited! very thrilled! much power! Mmm...No, nope, not like that. Before I get my hands into reviewing today's entry I can't help but post about my sorry emo feelings about a movie genre that despite bringing the Comic Book world to front center, it also has grown tired of itself and dangerously become a derivative cliched parody, the kind you shut down your brain and can still understand the whole story, even with detail. I've been a comic book reader since I was very little (not that anyone cares) and I'm not planning to stop being so. The world of superheroes is fascinating beyond words, yet when greedy film producers turn them into blockbuster films, there is something they're not doing right: They are not bringing the "fascinating" in comic books into their million dollar cinematic universe. 

Suicide Squad is, the latest addition to the now ongoing & growing DC Cinematic Universe that started in 2013 with Man of Steel, continued this year with Batman V Superman and clashed into today's film in review. Now, you already know our motto here is "watch the movie by yourselves, and build your own opinion based on your unique personal experience"  So, you're totally encouraged to disagree with what we think. Still, the world is built upon experience, facts & science. Film is an art form, and like any other art form it depends strictly on the eye of the beholder. Critics and real people, bashed Batman V Superman, (we liked it) when it came out. Then, when the Ultimate Extended Edition was released, voila! most of the haters became instant supporters of the film. Yes, we're a very weird species walking on Earth. In a nutshell, We're OK if you think our following review is full of crap.

Yeah! we're super bad!

I'm bad too!

Suicide Squad was, and I say "was" and not "is", a mildly popular comic book during the late 80's (make sure you read at least my personal favorite Apokolips Now), the time in which there was a second incarnation of the super criminal team. The original Task Force X (sounds a lot like X-Men, doesn't it?) dates back to 1959 and The Brave & the Bold comic book mag. The film incarnation is somewhat based upon 2011's New 52 Suicide Squad story line. Such arc includes Amanda Waller, Black Spider, Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, El Diablo, James Gordon Jr., Harley Quinn, Deathstroke & Yoyo. The ones marked in bold made it to the live action film. Rick Flag Jr. & Enchantress were added from the 1987-1992 Suicide Squad continuity. 

Anyways, there's been two earlier live action incarnations of the team before. One being in the fucking lame and god awful Smallville TV series from 2001 and the other being part of the fourth season of Arrow last year. Therefore, this film is the third live action incarnation of this very unusual team of super baddies.
 

Looks that kill.

Oh yeah! 90's fluorescent colors!

Suicide Squad happens right after Batman V Superman (there's even a quick scene of Superman's funeral)  Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) believes the world is in danger because there could come another Superman that is not so generous with mankind, so, instead of calling Batman & Wonder Woman, or The Flash, she thinks is wiser to leave world security in charge of a bunch of murderers that are beyond rehabilitation. The enemy, is actually, one of her own, June Moore (Cara Delevingne) a researcher, who happens to be possessed by the mystic being known as The Enchantress. This mystical entity hates humans and want to recover her place as ruler of the world. And oh, Yes, She's very powerful. Specially when next to her brother or once she recovers her heart, which happens to be the only weakness she has. Unfortunately for Amanda Waller, not even her military skills will protect it from reaching The Enchantress hands.

David Ayer, director of films that will never enter the annals of great movies, directs this flick with a super extra derivative eye. People expecting exciting moments or "oh my God I didn't think of that" plot twists will be straight forward disappointed by this "two hour Youtube gameplay video". Although you could watch this movie stoned as fuck, You'd still understand what the whole story is about. The sorry ass that wrote this mediocre plot is also Mr. David Ayer.

Bad to the bone!

"Psst, Enchantress..."

"Oh, but what about the "out of this world" Joker performance by Jared Leto?"  Well, if you've seen the trailers, that's all the Joker you'll get on this film. Recently, Leto sort of washed his hands off of the matter by declaring he filmed enough Joker scenes as to make a solo movie, but "some of the scenes were so shocking" producers cut them off from the final release. Yeah, right!

"Well, then, tell me about Will Smith! he's a great actor that's made great movies! he can't miss, can he?" Will Smith can't play any other character than himself. If you've suffered seeing one of his films, you've seen them all already. He makes Deadshot look like the Christian version of character, going to church on Sunday and praying every night.

"Oh, c'mon! I'm sure Margot Robbie steals the show as Harley Quinn!!" I find it hard to believe, until this very day, that thousands of young women love the Harley Quinn character, I mean what is wrong? can't you not understand her actual role in the comic books? She's not in love with the Joker and neither is him with her! She's a violently sexually abused woman! The Joker is a son of a bitch! a fucking murdering maniac! he can't feel love! he's fucking twisted! and yet, we get a lot of "I love you Harley Quinn, you're my favorite cosplay character from which I've never read anything before" To me (and to many) She's only an over rated exploited female character and that's exactly where this movie hits rock bottom. Her character is supposed to be the most important, the one that would fit the pieces together, the one that would lead others, and yet She is portrayed as being a dime a dozen teenage angst troubled kid.

Haters gonna hate!

And they thought the movie was about me! ha,ha,ha!

Alright, a few paragraphs above I said this film is a "Youtube gameplay video" meaning exactly that. Characters, are quickly introduced, They are briefed about the mission, They accept the mission, They start on stage 1 until They meet the final boss. End of game. Absolutely predictable! nothing new, nothing shocking and even worse, not a single scene to make you feel these people are actually the bad guys forced to do the right thing! I mean c'mon! They fucking save the day like superheroes do! they don't even kill random people while getting busy! And don't get me started on the emotive flashbacks about their good side. What a bunch of crap! Want more bashing? Well, how on Earth Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, Killer Croc & Harley Quinn add enough power to defeat a supernatural super powered being? Out of the bunch, Killer Croc has animal like force and no more; Deadshot is a mere mortal with bullseye aim; Captain Boomerang? don't make me laugh! and Harley Quinn??!! what the fuck can she do to stop an immortal entity? toss bad jokes stolen from The Joker? shoot a gun? use a knife? hit hard with her baseball bat? That's where this film fucking failed massively to me. The team is evidently over powered by the enemy and yet They manage to save the day with some team work with standard human abilities. I don't mention El Diablo (Jay Hernandez), because he is the only actual character capable of giving a hard time to The Enchantress (which He does by the way)

Alright, let's move on to the long awaited cameos! Yeah! Batman is there, and not only in once, but three complete scenes. First, He's seen capturing Deadshot. Second, he rescues Harley Quinn from drowning while the Joker runs away like a pussy, leaving her "love" to die under water (wow! what a display of caring for each other this turd has!) and last but not least, he's in the after credit scenes requesting some very predictable info from Amanda Waller as Bruce Wayne. The Flash cameo, is quicker, no pun intended, he stops Captain Boomerang and it's gone.

I'm Batman!

The Flash was here!

People that never watched a superhero film before, may find Suicide Squad very refreshing and entertaining. The problem is, who hasn't, even by chance, watched a superhero movie in 2016? Younger audiences, the ones not meant to watch it, will have a thrilling experience, specially if They've never read a comic book before. Comic Book fans, well, We're used to disappointment, most of the superhero films from both DC & Marvel suck some major ass.  The newly established DC Comics cinematic universe, may suck but it's selling merchandise like mad! Film producers couldn't care less about what Their viewers think, They just want Your money and They're getting it regardless concepts like quality, homage & respect for the viewers. Compared to Batman V Superman, Suicide Squad is way worse. At least, the former had interesting characters and a less derivative film maker POV. Still, the industry doesn't give a fuck about what We think. My recommendation is to buy comic books instead of movie tickets. Every comic book artist is not being paid shit for their creative efforts. There are no royalties in superhero movies. Do You like comic books? buy them, read them, buy some more, go to Cons, buy art prints. Forget about the movies, forget about that signed picture with the actor that plays Your favorite villain. Comic books are awesome in their own original format and need no updates and/or famous actors to attract new readers.

Overall, another action film supercharged with CGI and fight sequences all over. If that is what you're looking for, then Suicide Squad will deliver massive entertainment. On the other hand, if you're looking for a good movie, well, keep looking! And remember, DC Comics films will keep on coming regardless of what audiences think or experience. The truth is, these are very expensive two hour toy commercials, just like most of the 80's Cartoons.

Here's the movie trailer, and thank God, there's only Doctor Strange left this year! and like 2015, Star Wars will once again save the year for film lovers like You and Me.