Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
3.5/4
Enjoyably insane & anarchic supervillain movie.
Indyfreak - wrote on 01/08/2022
What a rush this movie was! I don't even hate the first movie. But this was 3x better than the first Suicide Squad. It's a glorioiusly insane and mean-spirited thrill ride. You can see the DNA of older movies like The Dirty Dozen or Where Eagles Dare sewn in with James Gunn's cheerfully deranged sensibilities. The cast is excellent with a lot of standout performances. Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, Viola Davis, and Sylvester Stallone voicing a mutant shark man are perhaps the best. And the creativity with the action scenes are awesome.
What works most about this movie is its fearlessness. It has no qualms about taking chances and playing with expectations. It does not hold back with the R rating and it is gruesome and sadistic with its violence. This is the best DC superhero movie since …
Rating of
3.5/4
Humor, Heart and a Lot of Blood
Chris Kavan - wrote on 08/12/2021
It turns out James Gunn is as good as making villains entertaining as he is obscure super heroes (c'mon - you never heard of The Guardians of the Galaxy EITHER before it came out). Even if David Ayer has an alternate (better) version of the original Suicide Squad, I still can't imagine it would be better than Gunn's blood-soaked, snarky yet surprisingly moving new version that is the top movie of the summer by a long shot.
Gunn's Suicide Squad is not quiet a sequel, not quite a reboot but something in between. Characters seem to somewhat acknowledge the events of the original film (Harley Quinn, Boomerang and Rick Flag seem to be good friends) but don't really bring it up in a big way, either. What does return is the cold-as-ice Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) who, once again, is in …
Rating of
3/4
Nom-nom!
Matthew Brady - wrote on 08/01/2021
Bloodsport: “Nobody likes a showoff.”
Peacemaker: “Unless what they showing off is dope as fuck.”
James Gunn recently said in an interview that he finds superhero movies “mostly boring” right now. Anything ranging from safe and boring or technically well-made but disposable, at best. Gunn received at bit of heat from fans for those remarks, but in some sense, he’s not wrong. Because sometimes following the same formula will eventually wear fin and more risk taking needs to happen.
And here we have ‘The Suicide Squad’, the soft reboot to the 2016 film, but this time directed by Gunn himself, where he delivers a highly entertaining movie that is bursting with creativity and ultra-violence. James Gunn once again shakes up the superhero formula with a slick …
