'The Suicide Squad' is the sequel to the 2016 film 'Suicide Squad' about a group of imprisoned comic book villain's, sent on risky missions by the government in exchange for reductions in their sentences. This is a much better film then the strangely dour original, the lighter tone seems to suit the premise more and the direction by 'Guardians of the Galaxy' helmer James Gunn is a good fit.
This movie concerns are group of characters who, with the exception of Harley Quinn (one of only three or four characters to return from the previous movie), you've probably never heard of before. This group contains such standouts as a Poolka-Dot Man, and a CGI Sharkman essayed by Silvester Stallone ala Vin Diesel's Groot. They are dispatched to a fictional Caribbean island nation to retrieve a McGuffin following a military cue.
Well paced, full of fun action sequences and neat visuals. It's actually a fairly clever film though comic movie fatigue blunts some of it's impact. It also reminded me a lot of the film 'Army of the Dead', which came out earlier this year and was directed by Zack Snyder who is a producer on this film. Both movies concern a group of misfits sent on a mission to get something out of a big building, and there is something of a double cross and zombies, though of vastly different sorts. A solid entry in the notoriously uneven DCEU. ***
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