Suicide Squad
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.
M08Y reviewed
September 27, 2025•
The film wants to be edgy. I wanted it to be good.
Suicide Squad a real mess, It's all over the place in just about every way imaginable. The pacing is horrible and the tone flip-flops between dark and gritty to generic nonsnse,
The casting is surprisingly good (Except Leto's Joker. Seriously go away please). Smith, Robbie and Kinnaman all turn in a good performance. Fortunately I know that good things are still to come for two of them.
The plot is.... about what you'd expect for a 15 rated DC movie in 2016. Overly edgy, lots of bad language, lots of violence, lots of music, lots of bloodless killing and of course, my favourite, a big sky laser/portal.
I've heard it said that this film is far from what Ayer actually intended to make and honestly I belive it. Suicide Squad had the rather unfortunate fate of coming after Batman vs Superman where DC decided to try and make everything funnier and more like marvel.... We all know how that turned out.
The audio and visuals are pretty much what you'd expect for this kind of film. There were a few nice shots and the special effects were actually finished. The audio quality was fine, but my god was there so much music thrown in. Genuinely a distracting amount of music. Enough music to make James Gunn wince.