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.
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.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
8 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:
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:
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:
Regrettably, the film's place-setting opening lays the scene for a different, more exciting film that never really unfolds.