Suicide Squad
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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.
What critics thought
Critics were largely dismissive, finding the film structurally broken — a lively, stylish first act that collapses into a generic, overstuffed mess. The central tension in reviews was whether the film's anarchic energy and Margot Robbie's widely praised Harley Quinn were enough to offset a muddled villain plot, too many underdeveloped characters, and what many saw as choppy, compromised filmmaking. Audiences were far more forgiving than critics, and the gap between those two verdicts is striking.
“Suicide Squad is just bad. It's ugly and boring, a toxic combination that means the film's highly fetishized violence doesn't even have the exciting tingle of the wicked or the taboo.”
Richard Lawson·Vanity Fair
“Suicide Squad kicks off with fizzy, punk-rock ferocity before turning flat and spiraling into familiar formulas”
Chris Nashawaty·Entertainment Weekly
“it is gleefully nihilistic, and it takes a different approach to what has become a fairly familiar story form at this point, right at the moment when it feels like superhero movies either have to evolve or die”
Drew McWeeny·HitFix
“Writer/director David Ayer has created a movie that's simultaneously underwritten and overstuffed. It has too many characters yet precious few who even come close to resembling actual human beings.”
Christy Lemire·RogerEbert.com
“It goes for subversive, funny and stylish, and it succeeds wildly during the first act. But then the movie turns into something predictable and unexciting.”
IGN
Accolades
Genres
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Cast & Crew
David AyerDirector
Will SmithDeadshot
Jared LetoThe Joker
Margot RobbieHarley Quinn
Joel KinnamanRick Flag
Viola DavisAmanda Waller
Jai CourtneyBoomerang
Jay HernandezDiablo
Adewale Akinnuoye-AgbajeKiller Croc
Cara DelevingneJune Moone / Enchantress
Ike BarinholtzGriggs
Scott EastwoodLieutenant GQ Edwards
Adam BeachSlipknot
Steven PriceComposer
Roman VasyanovCinematographySuicide Squad
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.
What critics thought
Critics were largely dismissive, finding the film structurally broken — a lively, stylish first act that collapses into a generic, overstuffed mess. The central tension in reviews was whether the film's anarchic energy and Margot Robbie's widely praised Harley Quinn were enough to offset a muddled villain plot, too many underdeveloped characters, and what many saw as choppy, compromised filmmaking. Audiences were far more forgiving than critics, and the gap between those two verdicts is striking.
“Suicide Squad is just bad. It's ugly and boring, a toxic combination that means the film's highly fetishized violence doesn't even have the exciting tingle of the wicked or the taboo.”
Richard Lawson·Vanity Fair
“Suicide Squad kicks off with fizzy, punk-rock ferocity before turning flat and spiraling into familiar formulas”
Chris Nashawaty·Entertainment Weekly
“it is gleefully nihilistic, and it takes a different approach to what has become a fairly familiar story form at this point, right at the moment when it feels like superhero movies either have to evolve or die”
Drew McWeeny·HitFix
“Writer/director David Ayer has created a movie that's simultaneously underwritten and overstuffed. It has too many characters yet precious few who even come close to resembling actual human beings.”
Christy Lemire·RogerEbert.com
“It goes for subversive, funny and stylish, and it succeeds wildly during the first act. But then the movie turns into something predictable and unexciting.”
IGN
Accolades
Genres
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Cast & Crew
David AyerDirectorWill SmithDeadshotJared LetoThe JokerMargot RobbieHarley QuinnJoel KinnamanRick FlagViola DavisAmanda WallerJai CourtneyBoomerangJay HernandezDiabloAdewale Akinnuoye-AgbajeKiller CrocCara DelevingneJune Moone / EnchantressIke BarinholtzGriggsScott EastwoodLieutenant GQ EdwardsAdam BeachSlipknotSteven PriceComposerRoman VasyanovCinematographyStream
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