DC Comics' latest addition to their burgeoning cinematic universe fails in several rather spectacular ways.

| Feb 11, 2021

For all its cast and crew's inglorious chest-thumping, Suicide Squad is a failed, forced exercise in - of all things! you had one job! - ensemble chemistry.

| Aug 10, 2017

Based on the screening I attended, I can attest that audiences seemed to genuinely enjoy the jokes and get swept up in the action sequences.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 3, 2017

It's far from perfect. But the characters are lovable, the world they live in is intriguingly weird, and all in all Suicide Squad offers a playful alternative to DC's more straightforward superhero films.

| Jun 13, 2017

Since I'm no avid superhero fan, I hate to choose sides. However, it is clear that what Marvel does consistently is the very thing that DC Comics continues to struggle with.

Full Review | Jan 23, 2017

This is a wasted opportunity on so many levels.

| Nov 8, 2016

Add Suicide Squad to the growing list of summer 2016 disappointments.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 9, 2016

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

| Aug 8, 2016

Taken from a popular DC comic series... helmed by a star quality director... peppered with a highly skilled, all-star cast ... What could go wrong? Nearly everything.

| Aug 7, 2016

Leto's doing his very best Heath Ledger (when he's doing anything at all), but his work has none of Ledger's dysfunction, dread, or menace; he's about as scary as a fifth-grader making faces at himself in a Hot Topic changing room mirror.

| Aug 7, 2016

What could be more fun than watching bad people do bad things in the service of good? Unfortunately, even a film full of villains needs a credible antagonist, and this is one of the many problems with Suicide Squad.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2016

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

| Aug 6, 2016

Where Suicide Squad's Big Bad should be there is only a Big Narrative Hole.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 5, 2016

Overall, though, the final two-thirds of the film are less funny than should be the case. The villains versus villains confrontation is not well explained and the fight scenes are unspectacular.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 5, 2016

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.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 5, 2016

The B-list superheroes have been unleashed upon the world, with their very own cult B-movie, and it's quite a lot of fun.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 5, 2016

One of the more refreshingly uncomplicated summer blockbusters in recent memory.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2016

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

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 5, 2016

There are some astonishing visuals and enjoyable performances from Will Smith and Margot Robbie in particular, but overall Suicide Squad is a sloppy mess.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 5, 2016

Sometimes it's good to be bad. In Suicide Squad's case, bad is just plain bad. It gives villainy a bad name.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 4, 2016