Suicide Squad Movie Review: “Squad” or “SQAAAD?”

Suicide Squad, or the great hope of the DC cinematic universe this year, is a movie about the Suicide Squad: an entertaining rag-tag group of misfits. This year DC has had two superhero movies: Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of “Meh” and Suicide SQUAAAD baby WOOOOOO. **Spoilers** The hype for Suicide Squad was through the roof. After Batman and Supes Dawn of “Meh” disappointed us in every way, Suicide Squad comes in with a toolkit like “Can we fix it? YES WE CAN?” With Viola Davis, Will Smith, Jared Leto, and Margot Robbie part of the cast, what could possibly go wrong? The plot of Suicide Squad is the main reason why this movie has gotten bad reviews. It has a 26% on Rotten Tomatoes, which I feel shouldn’t be taken as a serious review hub sometimes anyway, and it also has low scores all around the movie review scene. The movie that was supposed to be a cool new take on DC movies has become a movie that’s cool to hate. The main plot of Suicide Squad is set after Superman “dies” and Amanda Waller uses the old “what if” scenario to get her plan going; her plan is to make a team that is capable of taking out any “metahuman” or any other threat that the average soldier can’t handle. Because of the dangerous and life-threatening missions that the team will be sent on, Amanda has rounded up a bunch of baddies who were already going to end up dead at some point. The team is then assembled and after a lengthy but still enjoyable explanation of all of them and their powers, the story kic…

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