Review - The Suicide Squad
You may remember, five long years ago, a film came out called Suicide Squad . It was a complete mess of a movie that was cobbled together from multiple cuts, hated by many ( myself included ) and still somehow made almost $750 million worldwide. It was a weirdly large cultural moment, everyone was dressing up as Harley Quinn that Halloween and mocking Jared Leto's Joker. A lot has happened in the past five years, including a Harley Quinn spin-off and James Gunn being fired and rehired over at Marvel, both of which helped get us here, to The Suicide Squad . It's a sort of sequel to Suicide Squad , as well as a sort of sister piece to writer and director Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy films, but it's not nearly as complicated as it all sounds. It's not exactly an intricately woven story, but it feels somewhat refreshing when compared to other recent superhero films. The basis of the story is, similar to the first film, that a gang of misfit criminals are offered the c