Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014) review

The movie poster

In the honor, or dishonor in my opinion of the new Deadshot (I love the rest of the cast but Deadshot's costume just looks like OK cosplay, I mean there has to be metal, *cries* there has to be a metal helmet) I decided to review an all-around great Suicide Squad which I anticipated so much I actually pre-ordered, I mean I've never pre-ordered movies on iTunes before but I guess this was the rare case.

Hynden Walch's performance definitely put her up there with Tara Strong and Arleen Sorkin

The movie starts off with The Riddler (voiced by Matthew Gray Gubler) having a friendly riddle fest with Amanda Waller (CCH Pounder) who is trying to keep him talking so his location can be pin pointed. But Batman (Kevin Conroy) breaks in and saves Edward Nigma from the ruckus just to interrogate him and send him back to Arkham. Seeing no other choice Waller deploys the task force X also known as Suicide Squad to break into Arkham and retrieve a thumb drive on the Riddler's cane. But first they're collected. Harleen Quinzel (Hynden Walch) is still in therapy where there is little to no progress, Floyd Lawton (Neal McDonough) also known as Deadshot is about to escape Blackgate prison, King Shark (John DiMaggio) is being tracked down for murdering many women in gruesome fashion,  and everybody else are retrieved from similarly bizarre situations. 

King Shark had a cooler design than the comics

Overall, this movie is a testament to how DC's animation studios are the best at depicting comic characters at this point. They modernized the characters to various points such as Joker (Troy Baker) saying "I'm back, bitches!" which is just fantastic. The dialogue was well done and the story really got turned on its head in a fascinating way. Also any movie with Kevin Conroy voicing Batman is top of the crop in my list. 10 out of an insane 10.

Troy Baker nails the Joker's voice to perfection, again!