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."
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."
DailySuperHero.com is seeing SUICIDE SQUAD tonight and we will have our own spoiler-free review up on the website by Wednesday afternoon (August 3).
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