Hold Up! Is ‘The Suicide Squad’ Actually…Good!?

When writer-director David Ayer dropped Suicide Squad in 2016, fanboys and girls rejoiced. Where the DCEU’s Man of Steel divided fans and Batman v Superman physically pained them (We get it. Y’all mommas got the same name. Damn!), Suicide Squad was sure to deliver. But alas, the Will Smith and Margot Robbie-led comic book adaptation about a group of supervillains turned good guys fell flat. Five years later, writer-director James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) is back with standalone quasi-sequel The Suicide Squad that hits where the first film missed. It’s a Harley Quinn World This time around, Margot Robbie gets top billing after the success of her most recent turn as Harley Quinn in 2019’s Birds of Prey. And while a handful of characters from the previous film make it to the (kinda-sorta-but not really) sequel, it’s a mostly new crew of villains forced into service by shady bureaucrat Amanda Waller (Viola Davis). Here the team is called upon to save a military hero, stop a dictator from committing mass murder, and save the world from a giant alien starfish. Harley’s journey is the most interesting to watch as she investigates life without the Joker. For the first time in a long time, she’s truly on her own and loving every minute of it. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said of her paramours. “James put in a lot of very funny potential love interests throughout the film,” said Robbie. “It doesn’t always end well, obviously.”

“Harley Vision” in full effect.

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