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.
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,
5 Aug 2016
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,
5 Aug 2016
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,
6 Aug 2016
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,
8 Aug 2016
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.