The Suicide Squad [2021] - Movie Review
Name - The Suicide Squad Director - James Gunn Runtime - 132 mins Platform - In Select Theatres and HBO Max James Gunn is a deranged maniac, in a good way. The Suicide Squad, the second 2021 offering by Warner Bros. and DC Comics, is quite easily both DC and James Gunn at their most unleashed. Now I realize that by stating that, I am alienating at least a quarter of the audience who loves Gunn for his PG-13 offerings for Marvel (Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 2). This isn't Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 2, not by a mile. If anything The Suicide Squad is Gunn's irreverence dialed up to 11, the weirdness and gross out humour of The Toxic Avenger coupled with a big budget Hollywood production, and a cast of characters who are truly expendable, because as the name The Suicide Squad suggests, not many people are walking out of this movie alive. Looking at the above roll call, anybody would be under the misconception that this is a large ensemble and thus narrative-wise it wou...