To say James Gunn’s filmmaking leans on music is like saying the DC cinematic universe banks on Batman — both assertions are true, and both are understatements. The writer/director behind two “Guardians of the Galaxy” films, as well as “The Suicide Squad” and “Super” (the latter of which feels most relevant to his latest project, “Peacemaker”), Gunn has a bit more than an ear for good soundtracks. His first MCU joint hinges on its lead’s lifelong attachment to an “Awesome Mix” (Vol. 1). His second foregrounds a boss battle that (literally) revolves around a dancing Baby Groot. And in his inaugural DC Comics feature, Gunn caps off his uber-violent opening sequence with a musical punchline, playing The Jim Carroll Band’s “People Who Died” right after one suicide squad is brutally, unwittingly sacrificed, so another can utilize the distraction and enter enemy territory undetected.
The apparent incongruity between such a dependence on melodic montages and a character so swole he can barely lift his two left feet felt like an early warning sign for “Peacemaker,” Gunn’s HBO Max spinoff led by lumbersome star John Cena. Don’t get me wrong: Anyone who worked that long and that successfully in the WWE knows how to move their body, but part of the titular hero’s essence — as evidenced by his supporting role in “The Suicide Squad” — seemed to include a kind of stilted machismo reflective of guys who see cutting loose as an embarrassment; the high school jocks who would nod semi-rhythmically at prom or try to start a mosh pit, rather than let the groove get them.
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