Review of The Suicide Squad (2021) by Mrpajamas — 06 Aug 2021

After the above average Suicide Squad comes a new one, this time from James Gunn, and I can tell you it's good. In the first few minutes, we're introduced to the characters. They are, in my opinion, better and much more memorable.

The best for me is still Harley Quinn, who could not be played by anyone other than the wonderful Margot Robbie. As for the new characters, I quite liked King Shark there. Next up are some excellent action scenes, which are unusually frequent for DC.

Aside from being frequent, they are really good and Gunn's hand has made his mark on the CGI here, as Weasel like this reminded me slightly of Rocket from Guardians of the Galaxy. Where else the change in the director's chair was felt is without a doubt the music, which was really great and I devoured some scenes because they were epic, although I would add that there's not much play on any epicness here.

In fact, the film throws in one joke after another. If you found 2016's Suicide Squad too "serious", then I have good news for you because the darker atmosphere has been replaced with a funnier one.

To sum it all up. For me, a good film that has rectified the reputation of Suicide Squad and I wouldn't complain at all if there was a sequel that built on this 2021 Suicide Squad and forgot about the 2016 one.

I'm not a hater of the older one. In my opinion, it had a darker atmosphere and smaller doses of jokes that I liked about it. But otherwise, the new Suicide Squad offered us much more and I can recommend it.