the suicide squad 2021 review

the suicide squad 2021

movie review

 / john cena / margot robbie  / idris elba 

Warner bros

Production companies: Atlas Entertainment, Peter Safran Productions

Worldwide distribution: Warner Bros.

Producers: Charles Roven, Peter Safran

Screenplay: James Gunn, based on characters from DC

Production design: Beth Mickle

Editing: Fred Raskin, Christian Wagner

Cinematography: Henry Braham

Music: John Murphy

Main cast: Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Joel Kinnaman, Sylvester Stallone, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney, Peter Capaldi

The latest instalment in the DC Extended Universe arrives in the UK on July 30, hitting US screens (and HBO Max) on August 6. Will Smith, who starred in the 2016 film, isn’t in The Suicide Squad, but Robbie’s return as Harley Quinn ought to compensate, joined by newcomers John Cena and Peter Capaldi. The original film grossed nearly $750 million worldwide, so there is definitely demand for a follow-up, especially one that’s significantly better than the first.

Not exactly a sequel to 2016’s Suicide Squad. its more like another stab at the same milieu, featuring some of the same characters the new picture is energised by writer-director James Gunn’s unapologetically gritty approach, which feels like a bracing antidote to the earnestness and forced gravitas so prevalent in superhero films.

After the events of the first part of the movie. Hardened villains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a group of crooks at Bell Reef Prison decide to join a group of secret and mysterious missions on a remote island. Margot Robbie and Idris Elba shine, balancing humour and edginess in a blockbuster studded with visual wonders and inspired set pieces.

Yet unlike, Deadpool, The Suicide Squad isn’t interested in simply being irreverent. Instead, amidst the adult humour and graphic violence, the follow-up gives its tough-talking characters a rugged nobility which is endearing, even touching. Elba is superb playing a grizzled mercenary who learns to care about others, although that doesn’t stop him from feuding with Peacemaker, who considers himself the superior warrior. But whether it’s the matter-of-fact gruesomeness a walking, talking shark named King Shark (Sylvester Stallone) indiscriminately eats baddies along its path or the vivid depiction of the beautiful, terrifying Starro, which is essentially a mammoth killer starfish, The Suicide Squad is both shrewder and more down and dirty exciting than the typical superhero entry.

You never lose characters in action like a lot of poor recent movies do. While "The Suicide Squad" appears to be a rollercoaster with no brakes, it's actually a very elaborate action comedy, alternating between humorous beats with bursts of intense violence. On that note, this is the most violent superhero movie to date. Although the film has been praised so far since its launch last night, achieving a rating of 8.4 on IMDB; And a rating of 99% on the rotten tomatoes (rating of 68 people, most of whom are cinema critics) , but the film received many negative reactions as it exploits the fame of the first part of the film in 2016. Hence, classifying it as a propaganda film as an advertising method to generate revenue, not to influence the cinema.