Critical Déjà Vu? SUICIDE SQUAD Reviews Are Unfortunately Mostly Negative



Oh no... not again.

After lower-than-expected audience reception and lots of critical panning on MAN OF STEEL and BATMAN V. SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE, Warner Bros. and DC Films needed to hit a homerun with SUICIDE SQUAD.

Well... the initial critics reviews are coming in and they seem to be mostly negative and "meh." However, these are just opinions and you always deserve to judge a movie for yourself because critics' tastes may not line up with your own.

Here's a quick breakdown of some of the reviews that are hitting the web right now. Click the website name to read the full review.


VARIETY -- "The Joker and Harley Quinn steal the show in this DC Comics-style riff on 'The Dirty Dozen,' which shares the same bleak view of superheroes as 'Batman v Superman.'"


THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER -- "A puzzlingly confused undertaking that never becomes as cool as it thinks it is, Suicide Squad assembles an all-star team of supervillains and then doesn’t know what to do with them."


IGN -- "Suicide Squad is a decidedly different flavor than Batman v Superman. 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."


HITFIX -- "Whatever the case, when Suicide Squad gets it right, I like it a lot, and it gets it right often enough that I like a lot of it. It won’t deliver the decisive knockout blow that ends the DC/Marvel rivalry that the most impassioned fans seem to want, but nothing will. What it does is make a case for how much fun this universe can be when the characters are embraced fully and when a filmmaker seems excited by the opportunities afforded by those characters. Lots of superhero films struggle to make us like their heroes even half as much as we end up liking the villains here, and that alone is a pretty canny trick, one that I suspect audiences will enjoy quite a bit."


SLASHFILM -- "Suicide Squad‘s story may be messy, but it more or less wraps up before the credits roll. If you never returned for another DC movie, you’d still feel like you got a complete tale with Suicide Squad — well, give or take an end-credits stinger. But what Warner Bros. hopes, of course, is that audiences will want to come back."


io9 -- "Suicide Squad is a weird movie, and not just because it’s about a motley crew of supervillains set in the DC universe. The movie itself is also a motley amalgamation—a strange blend of different tones, stories ,and pacing all mashed into something that has cool individual elements, but never really comes together."


COMICBOOK -- "Suicide Squad is the fun, action-packed movie DC Comics fans have been waiting for, delivering two hours of great quips, crazy action sequences, a pitch-perfect Harley Quinn, and other actors stepping swiftly and easily into their roles. Its flaws will bother some more than others - comic book fans? You won't have to worry. Moviegoers less familiar with this structure or being introduced to these characters for the first time will still find so much great character work that the flaws should be able to be overlooked in favor of a good time at the movies."


USA TODAY -- "Like The Dirty Dozen for the Hot Topic generation, the team gets in-your-face introductions and things just grow more mental from there. But compared to its ilk,Suicide Squad is an excellently quirky, proudly raised middle finger to the staid superhero-movie establishment."


CHICAGO TRIBUNE -- "But folks, this is a lousy script, blobby like the endlessly beheaded minions of the squad's chief adversary. It's not satisfying storytelling; the flashbacks roll in and out, explaining either too much or too little, and the action may be violent but it's not interesting. At this point in 2016 America, if there's one thing I could vote out of all movies, permanently, it's the drooling slow-motion close-up of hundreds of assault weapon bullets bouncing off gorgeously lit pavement."


EMPIRE -- "If Marvel has the best superheroes, so the prevailing geek-logic goes, then DC has the coolest villains. So it’s only sensible they’re finally placed front, centre and in the firing line. Filling its entire super-team with previously unseen antagonists, Suicide Squad represents a Flash-speed sprint of a catch-up for the rapidly forming DC Cinematic Universe. And, on that front at least, it’s a real hoot."


ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY -- "Writer-director David Ayer (End of Watch) skillfully sets up the film, introducing each of the crazies with caffeinated comic-book energy... The stakes should feel higher... Still, it’s nothing compared with how wasted Leto’s scene-stealing Joker is. With his toxic-green hair, shiny metal teeth, and demented rictus grin, he’s the most dangerous live wire in the film. But he’s stranded in the periphery. For DC, which blew it with Batman v Superman last spring, Suicide Squad is a small step forward. But it could have been a giant leap."


DEN OF GEEK -- "Suicide Squad is quite bonkers (even if it is not as clever as this year’s Deadpool), and it’s easily the most visually ambitious and viscerally kinetic superhero experience of 2016, putting it tonally miles away from anything Marvel Studios would ever touch. A refreshing step up for the DCEU after Batman v Superman’s instantly legendary failures, this is wacky blockbuster filmmaking that celebrates style over substance and convinces us we should too."