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Suicide Squad

Worst. Heroes. Ever.

2016 · 2h 2m · PG-13 Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Directed by David Ayer

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Overview

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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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

Top critics, in their words

All reviews
26%
Tomatometer
Rotten

This is what happens when the comic book fanboys have taken over the asylum. It is damaged goods from the get-go, the kind of film grown in a petri dish in Hollywood.

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rotten

To say that the movie loses the plot would not be strictly accurate, for that would imply that there was a plot to lose.

Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Rotten

If I have not yet convinced you of the movie's astonishingly slipshod quality, I'm unlikely ever to do so.

Christopher Orr, The Atlantic
Rotten

Writer-director David Ayer doesn't have the right graphic technique for a comic-book-style jamboree -- he's strictly a noirish-pulp guy -- and the characters, all of whom are promisingly introduced, fizzle fast.

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Rotten

Regrettably, the film's place-setting opening lays the scene for a different, more exciting film that never really unfolds.

John Semley, Globe and Mail

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