The Suicide Squad is the sequel/reboot of 2016’s Suicide Squad. This time it is directed by James Gunn and has a host of new characters played by the likes of Idris Elba, John Cena and a giant shark man voiced by Sylvester Stallone.
The Suicide Squad is a major improvement on its predecessor. Suicide Squad is one of the most technically inept major budget movies ever made. Don’t get me wrong its a great comedy, but your not laughing with the film, your laughing at it. But the classic lines like ‘this is Katana’ and ‘What are we? Some kind of Suicide Squad?’ make the film on of the most enjoyable bad superhero movies.
But The Suicide Squad is a film you can laugh with rather than at. It is genuinely very funny and every character has an impact on the story, an interesting backstory or is at least is funny. The action sequences are entertaining. The film has a different setting, being set on a Caribbean island, which I don’t think I’ve seen before in a superhero film.
The film improves on Suicide Squad in every way. The music is actually relevant, rather than just a random jukebox of popular songs. The ending is not just a CGI mess, that is this giant world ending threat. In this film it makes sense that the Suicide Squad would be called to do this job, unlike in the previous film where you just think, couldn’t Batman or Wonder Woman do this? And it gets rid of the worst characters from the last one, principally Jared Leto’s Joker.
Overall, The Suicide Squad is a very entertaining film. It is the film the first Suicide Squad should have been. It’s probably not for everyone and I probably still prefer Guardians of the Galaxy if I had to choose, but it is still very entertaining and worth watching. 4 Stars.
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