The film unfolds in the song "Folsom Prison Blues," specially written by country singer Johnny Cash for a prisoner friend, and "scholar" Savant first appears to kill a bird with a calculated bouncy ball, suggesting that the character is extremely intelligent and at the same time extremely cruel.
The actor who starred as "Scholar" Brian Delin was named Michael Luke, who also played Brave in Guardians of the Galaxy. Since the film's director James Gunn also directed Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and 2 (who was fired by Marvel for inappropriate remarks), he did not shy away from using many of his old teams in the Marvel Universe, such as Clagrin in "Silver Guardian" and Sean Gunn of "Rocket Raccoon", who starred in the film in a motion capture way; "Mantis Woman" actor Pang Clementev starred as a dancer in a bar; and of course, Sylvie Stallone, who voiced "Shark King".
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The film follows the plot at the end of the previous Suicide Squad, where the 2016 team wreaked havoc in Midway City, but the person in charge, Amanda Waller, was not dealt with because of her list of superhumans in hand ("The Flash", "Aquaman", etc.) and "Batman" Bruce Wayne to get the protection of the other party. This allows Amanda to continue to select suitable "strangers" from the "Dream Manor" to serve the "Interests of the United States", which is actually a dangerous suicide mission outsourced by some governments.
Amanda prepared two teams for the "Starfish Project". Team A used cannon fodder to attract the attention of The Kotomatis government forces on the southern beaches, including Harley Quinn, Colonel Rick Flegger, Captain Boomerang, Scholar, Black Guard, Broken Arm, Mongo, Javelin, and Weasel. The "Black Guard" must have been instructed by Amanda to smuggle the squad's whereabouts to the Kotomatis government (his ability to communicate with the outside world in a heavily guarded prison is in itself very suspicious).
Corto Maltese is a fictional country in the DC Universe, geographically and culturally close to cuba in the real world, so team A's tragic and ridiculous failure is a replica of the "Bay of Pigs landing".
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Harley Quinn was originally rescued by the Joker at the end of the 2016 version of Suicide Squad, but in the later Birds of Prey, she chose to break up with the Joker because she couldn't stand the Joker's madness and fickleness. Recently, due to a bank robbery, he entered the palace twice, and was re-imprisoned by Amanda Waller into the "Dream Manor".
One small detail, in the 2016 edition of Suicide Squad, Harley Quinn originally had a clown tattoo on her body, accompanied by the text "property of Joker" (property of Joker). By the time of the film, the text can be seen as "property of no one", indicating that Harley has freed herself from the clown's control over her and is beginning to move towards independence.
As the members of Team A are killed one by one by the powerful firepower of the other side, Harley and Rick Fleger finally realize that their squad's mission is nothing more than to attract attention for another team. Team B, which landed safely on the northern beaches, was the "X Team" that really carried out project "Starfish", including "Bloody Campaign", "Peacemaker", "Shark King", "Poca Dot Man" and "Second Generation Mousetrap", and the members of Team B all had considerable abilities compared to Team A.
Regarding the abilities of these members and the background of the manga, you can see my last article, which is linked at the end of the article.
Harley Quinn was captured by Cotomatis government forces during the firefight, and their new president, Silvio Luna, saw Harley Quinn as an icon of anti-Americanism (not surprising based on her earlier performance in Suicide Squad 2016 and later Birds of Prey), and not only treated her courteously, but also intended to marry her to show the world the country's anti-American stance. However, Harley Quinn had vowed to kill all of her "line-treading" boyfriends during her breakup with the Joker, so when Silvio told Harley about putting the families of those who opposed them in "Jöggenheim" for human experimentation, he touched Harley's bottom line, and the latter shot her to death.
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As the "thinker" Gaius Greaves was captured by the squad, they learned that the so-called "starfish project" was actually an experiment manipulated by the US government, NASA astronauts captured staros, an alien species, from outer space to Earth, but in order to avoid the disastrous consequences of the experiment, the US government simply transported Staro to the then pro-American Cotomatis, using living people under the castle of Jöggenheim to conduct cruel research experiments, "Thinker". He was the chief scientist in charge of the project at the time. However, now that Kotomatis has suffered a coup d'état and the military government in power is extremely anti-American, the US government has to consider completely removing the clues of the plan.
The Thinker is not actually a character in DC Comics, but a collection of high-IQ villains, all of whom share the characteristic of wanting to develop their brain abilities to the extreme. In the fourth season of the TV series "The Flash", there was a "thinker" character named Clifford Devo, who also had the ability to control his mind (although the "Flash" series did not belong to the DCEU's worldview).
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Jöggenheim retains the full video of the American astronauts capturing the staro at that time, and it can be seen that the original staro was not large, and after its spores parasitized on several astronauts, its size immediately changed significantly. In the comics, Staro can indeed absorb consciousness from the controlled prey to expand his size and abilities, and also hint at why the Staro at the end of the film has become such a huge monster.
In addition, we can also see Staro tied to the bulkhead of the spacecraft, while other astronauts take selfies around it in a playful way, and one of the female astronauts also makes a smoking gesture in her hand, which is a satire on the infamous abuse of prisoners in Iraq.
When the mystery is revealed, the "Messenger of Peace" also reveals his true identity, and only The X Contingent knows the real goal of Amanda Waller's "Starfish Project", which is to cover up the crimes committed by the US government in other countries at all costs. To this end, the Messenger of Peace killed Colonel Rick Fleger and was about to attack the Second Generation Mousetrap, when the Bloody Movement appeared and defeated him in a duel with a "smaller bullet".
But at this point, Staro broke free from the underground prison in Joggenheim and began to unleash spores to frantically attack the people of Kotomatis, and the remaining members of Task Force X gathered together to use their respective potential to finally subdue the huge monster.
Finally, I would like to say that although "Task Force X" is a restrictive movie, it is full of blood and violence while discussing a warm theme, how to deal with the family and friends who have hurt us.
The "Bloody Movement" is actually the death shot from the previous "Suicide Squad" (Will Smith could not continue to star because of the schedule conflict), because he was a killer and could not give the daughter the right guidance, the relationship between father and daughter complained about each other, resulting in a rift in the relationship; but when Amanda Waller tried to use her daughter to blackmail him, it immediately angered him, indicating that the daughter still occupies an important position in the mind of the "Bloody Movement".
The "Poka Dot Man" was infected with a heterogeneous virus because his mother, who worked at the S.T.A.R Lab, treated her as a subject, so he could not forgive his mother for the rest of his life, and everywhere he went he saw the woman's vision. In the end, he treats the monster in front of him as his mother, unleashes all his past resentments on it, and dies like a true superhero, just as his mother expected.
The "second generation of rat catchers" and her father have a good relationship, but the other party died early due to overdose, leaving her in a trance all day (she may be so sleepy because she was able to see her father in her dreams), and in the end, it was by relying on her father's ability to control rats that allowed the "second generation rat catchers" to control the rats in the city to Staro.
The father of "Messenger of Peace" is an extreme person with serious Nazi tendencies (his father is only briefly mentioned in the film, but the easter egg at the end shows that "Messenger of Peace" is not dead, and Warner recently confirmed that his father will appear in the personal episode of "Messenger of Peace"). This is also the reason why the "Messenger of Peace" advocates violence so much that he even defends his violent acts under the guise of peace.
Even the "Shark King", a monster with no friends (family information unknown), found a sense of belonging in Jöggenheim's laboratory, treating a group of alien jellyfish as his own kind/friends, but was bitten by them all over the body.
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"Task Force X": A brief chat about the origin of Staro, once singled out the existence of the Justice League
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