TheSuicideSquad has humor and style to burn, and not much else. BilgeEbiri writes
Margot Robbie in The Suicide Squad. Photo: Warner Bros. James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad — equal parts sequel and reboot to 2016’s much-reviled but ultimately profitable Suicide Squad — offers so much rapid-fire irreverence that it’s sometimes hard to figure out if it’s even supposed to be a movie. With its incessant profanity, ridiculous body count, and trollish sense of humor, Gunn’s film often seems content to exist in a constant state of rug-pulling. Lots of fun but little forward momentum.
It’s a fun idea for a movie, too, since the best iterations of the genre tend to live or die by the strength of their villains, and this concept is villains all the way down. It actually felt well-timed back in 2016, when Marvel’s colorful jokeyness had taken a turn for the self-important and DC’s gritty earnestness had been supercharged by films like Batman v. Superman. Most critics despised the first crack at a Suicide Squad movie, directed by David Ayer .
Of course, the story is not really the point here, and you can feel the movie deflating whenever it has to handle any sort of narrative business. Gunn, who also wrote the script, doesn’t seem particularly interested in grounding these characters in anything resembling the real world.
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