Suicide Squad

  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Fantasy
8/3/2016
122
PG-13

Worst. Heroes. Ever.

From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted prison sentences.

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Revenue:
$749,200,054
Budget:
$175,000,000

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  • Frank Ochieng

    Summertime 2016 has not been very kind to DC Comics-based personalities looking to shine consistently like their big screen Marvel Comics counterparts. Following the super-sized dud that was Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice released a few months ago must really put some major pressure on Warner Bros. to gamble on ensuring that the presence of Suicide Squad does not meet the same kind of indifferent reception. Well, it turns out that although the anticipation was high for writer-director David Ayer's supervillain saga involving high-powered imprisoned rogues recruited as U.S. governmental operatives out to stop other skillful baddies (as it was for Zack Ryder's aforementioned "Dawn of Justice") the concoction of Suicide Squad fe...

    August 8, 2016
  • Spartan117

    Suicide Squad is the third and latest entry into the DCEU, and is about a bunch of bad guys that are rounded up to fight for someone else. And just like this year's BvS, this movie received overwhelmingly negative reviews by the critics and was divided among the fans. I was super curious to watch it because unlike many, I actually enjoyed the DCEU till this point. Enjoyed both Man of Steel and BvS. But unfortunately, this one's a mess.

    The majority of the movie just feels choppy, editing was all over the place. Like they had a final product but because of disagreements, they took out a lot of scenes, shorten the runtime, and added others, making a giant choppy mess in the end. Scenes don't properly flow, including the flashbacks. Some sc...

    October 19, 2016
  • Ruuz

    Some semi-interesting visuals and a few characters I'd like to get to know, but an absolute mess of a movie. The thing feels like a trailer, or a clipshow, or a music video or some other sort of two-hour long promotional material for the actual Suicide Squad that comes out later.

    Final rating: - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product.

    November 20, 2016
  • Rangan

    They are not superheroes, they are supervillains.

    It's nothing against DC, but overall I'm starting to think the todays cinema is getting crowded with the lots of superheroes. Just like any pollution or the over population on the earth's surface. It needs stability, but nobody cares about it other than money making agenda. I also think it's going to last for only a few more years, when this trend going to end like that happened in the 70s, 80s and the 90s. And the space travel era to begin which is already kick- started. So DC or Marvel and others, they should be careful, for far they could take their products.

    Like the title say, it's not just about the film characters, the film itself a suicidal. I'm not saying the film was unne...

    December 14, 2016
  • ColinJ

    Aka NEEDLE DROP: THE MOVIE

    SUICIDE SQUAD is a mess. But an entertaining, well-cast mess.

    February 16, 2017
  • in_the_crease

    *** This review may contain spoilers ***

    Suicide Squad has a horrible script. First, there was the story--such as it was--itself: A super villain with the power to end the world goes to work in a universe that has established Batman and Wonder Woman. So what do the authorities do? Call up Batman and Wonder Woman? Of course not! Hire a bunch of criminals to save the world.

    It would be like if the U.S. was invaded by China, and we went and got the Taliban to protect us.

    So, from the very bones of the story, the movie fails. Add in a tell-and-don't-show approach to characterization, and horrendous dialogue, and this film was doomed before it got off the printed page. I really wanted to like this film, but I just couldn't.

    So, let's...

    March 22, 2017
  • mooney240

    Suicide Squad could have been more if the studio hadnt interfered in production, but what we got still entertained and debuted some amazing actors bringing these wild characters to life.

    The Suicide Squad comics are some of my favorites. C-list villains are forced to run shady impossible missions for the government with the hopes of having their prison sentences reduced. The comics were so fun because everything was so unpredictable, with characters dying in almost every comic. So seeing those comics come to life was an absolute delight for me. Unfortunately, the unpredictability was minimized, and the plot was fairly cliche, but I still loved this movie. Will Smith as Deadshot brought real swagger to a less-developed character. Marg...

    February 11, 2023
  • Crazypiglady

    If you can't make a movie better than the comic, then don't make the movie.

    June 2, 2024
  • Crazypiglady

    I always think that Marvel translate average comics into good movies and DC turn good comics into average ones. DCs depth always seems lost in (at least some of) their movies and this is one of them.

    This could (and should) have been a good film given the budget, casting and history. Maybe it was. But if studio execs say, 'action sells - cut the unprofitable soul', then you end up with this; high budget, well produced, well cast, cinematic, crap.

    June 2, 2024

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