The Suicide Squad opens with 98% approval among the critics, who place it as one of the funniest movies of the year, more gore and violent than Deadpool!
Do you remember what happened on July 21, 2018? Disney suddenly fired James Gunn from the direction of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, to the bewilderment and dismay of fans of Marvel’s galactic saga. A short time later, Gunn received a call from the competition to offer to lead a project. Whatever he wanted! And chose The Suicide Squad.
Three years later, The Suicide Squad is about to hit theaters around the world and HBO Max (in Spain it is August 6th), and the play could not have gone better. Today the professional reviews have come out and, as of this writing, the film has an approval rating of the 98% in Rotten tomatoes, with 54 reviews counted.
The consensus is complete: The Suicide Squad is one of the funniest movies of the year, and one of the best in DC, especially since the DC “post Nolan” and the new continuity DCEU (Extended Universe).
The Suicide Squad is technically a sequel to the Suicide Squad by David Ayer, 2016, since many of his characters return (Jared Leto’s Joker does not return, calm down). Is it necessary to have seen the previous one to enjoy this one? No though “will help locate some of the characters from the sequel“.
Nevertheless, James Gunn’s is very different and far superior to Ayer’s. “NOr can I imagine another movie as terrible as Suicide Squad that ends up having a sequel as well done and downright competent as this one.“.
Among the characters, they especially praise the Harley Quinn by Margot Robbie, “his best performance and his best written and directed Harley“, although there are no references Birds of prey. However, almost any character is a candidate to become your favorite, although they speak especially well of King Shark, TDK (Nathan Fillion) and Ratcatcher (Daniela Melchor).
They also claim that while Gunn comes from both Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy movies, this one feels different, and does not just repeat the formula. It’s just as funny as those, yes, but also much more brutal: “It is the kind of film that mixes comedy with brutality, reaching combinations of screams and laughter at its best.“.
And if, violent: The Suicide Squad is “R”, and that translates to a lot of gore, “making Deadpool look sweet.” “I never imagined that some of the most disgustingly loved scenes in a movie were so precious at the same time“.
But we can expect much more than a mindless bloodbath, and promise a high level of emotions, with characters dying, “which adds a feeling of concern and fear for the characters“.
Finally, it seems that also there will be things that can give rise to other films or projects (What the Peacemaker series, the character of John Cena), but the fans and the general public will leave very satisfied, of which they say it is “the most bizarre mainstream blockbuster of all time“.
This article was published in Hobby Consolas by Javier Escribano.