Film
The Suicide Squad
- Director
- James Gunn
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 132 mins
“Hang on, haven’t we had this one already?” non-nerds may be forgiven for asking. Well no, actually: this is a sequel to 2016’s poorly received Suicide Squad, distinguished by its definitive article. Thge first one, you’ll recall, was billed as “the Ocean’s Eleven of comicbook movies” and assembled a motley crew of imprisoned supervillians who were offered their freedom in return for agreeing to undertake a government mission that none of them was likely to survive.
Indeed neither director David Ayer nor stars Will Smith, Tom Hardy and Jared Leto survived for the sequel, which introduces a number of new supervillians and sets them off on a broadly similar mission. James Gunn, of Guardians of the Galaxy fame, is at the helm for this tenth film in the ‘DC Extended Universe’ (which means it should at least be funnier than its predecessor), with Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Joel Kinnaman, Jai Courtney and Peter Capaldi as the latest set of supervillians. Present in voice form only is Sly Stallone as some kind of lumbering human-fish hybrid. The mission? To destroy a Nazi-era prison lab and take on a giant telepathic alien starfish.
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