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When a ruthless government
agent decides that the worst
criminals are the best line
of defence against a meta-
human menace known as the
Enchantress, the Suicide Squad
is assembled. Chief among
them are bad girl Harley Quinn
(Margot Robbie), mercenary
assassin Deadshot (Will
Smith), pyrokinetic El Diablo
(Jay Hernandez), reptilian cave
dweller Killer Croc (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), and
bogan Aussie thief Boomerang (Jai Courtney). A
candy-coloured mash-up of gritty urban action, comic
book aesthetics, lurid production design and a streak
of insanity that matches its characters, the overall
effect is
Fight Club
meets
The Avengers
. Harley
Quinn is the movie’s pin-up girl, but it’s actually Will
Smith (in one of his least grating performances in
years) who steals the film. And Jared Leto’s Joker,
who was criminally underused in the theatrical
version, gets a bit more screen time on the Blu-ray
in an Extended Cut that adds 13 minutes of unseen
footage.
SH
Worst Heroes Ever
SUICIDE SQUAD
DVD & BD
Gag Reel
BD ONLY
Theatrical and Extended Cuts
Task Force X: One Team, One
Mission
Chasing the Real
Joker & Harley: “It” Couple of
The Underworld
Squad Strength and Skills
Armed to the Teeth
This is Gonna Get Loud: The
Epic Battles of Suicide Squad
The Squad Declassified
JB HI-FI EXCLUSIVE
Deluxe Edition Blu-ray inc.
Hard-Cover Graphic Novel
Limited Edition Steelbook
Batman vs Superman
EXTRAS
FURTHER VIEWING
Release Date:
07/12/16
Format:
TOP
HITS
Matt Damon returns to arguably
his best known role (apart from
being left stranded on planets)
in the fifth entry in the Robert
Ludlum-created franchise.
Although the eponymous
agent has now remembered
everything, Bourne must still
dig deep to uncover the truth
about his past – namely what
really happened to his father.
We meet him KO-ing people in
one-hit fights for money, having seemingly left the
CIA and Treadstone behind. Alicia Vikander joins
the series as a proficient hacker who’s part of a
counter-terrorism taskforce, and Nicki (Julia Stiles)
is back, trying to get her hands on some Black
Ops files. Bourne eventually returns to the fold and
teams up with Nicki, who informs him that there
may have been more to his past – and his father’s
death – than he initially believed. It’s great to have
both Damon and director Paul Greengrass back
onboard, and although
Jason Bourne
doesn’t hit the
relentless heights of series’ benchmark
The Bourne
Ultimatum
, it’s a welcome return to form for the
franchise following that Jeremy Renner outing that
nobody seems to talk about.
Alesha Kolbe
Re-BourneJASON BOURNE
The Bourne Ultimatum
EXTRAS
FURTHER VIEWING
Release Date:
07/12/16
TOP
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DVD & BD
Bringing Back Bourne
Las Vegas Showdown
BD ONLY
Bourne to Fight
The Athens Escape
Format:
The Las Vegas car chase sequence
took five weeks to shoot and
wrecked 170 cars.
Matt Damon refused to voice
Jason Bourne in the video game
The Bourne Conspiracy
(2008) due
to its excessive violence
This is the first Bourne film not
have the franchise’s trademark title
format of “The Bourne...” It was
rumoured, though, that it was to
have have been called
The Bourne
Betrayal
.
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