The Suicide Squad - The scoop and digest

Writer/director James Gunn hopes to erase the psychological trauma of David Ayer's Suicide Squad.

Margot Robbie - Harley Quinn

Idris Elba - Bloodsport

John Cena - Peacemaker

Joel Kinnaman - Colonel Rick Flag

Viola Davis - Amanda Waller

Sylvester Stallone - King Shark

Peter Capaldi - Thinker

Summary

After a chaotic opening (where Savant, Captain Boomerang, Blackguard, Javelin, T.D.K. and Mongal all die), we flashback 3 days earlier at Belle Reve with Bloodsport serving time for putting Supes in ICU with a Kryptonite bullet.

To protect his criminal daughter Tyla, our man is blackmailed by Waller into teaming up with Peacemaker, King Shark, Ratcatcher 2 and Polka-Dot Man to infiltrate scientific research facility at Jötunheim and destroy all evidence of Project Starfish.

You see, extra-terrestrial lifeform falling into the hands of Silvio Lunar and right-hand man Mateo Suarez would be cataclysmic for the world.

Mission start.

Extra scenes

Weasel is revealed to have not drowned.

Waller's outfit visit a comatose Peacemaker who might just save the fucking world.

DC goes all Deadpool

Visually gorgeous, bloody and foul-mouthed, standalone sequel largely hits the spot.

Killing off x amount of characters is identical in principle to Deadpool 2, but done in a serious rather than humorous way.

Screenplay occasionally raised a smile but never had me laugh out loud.

Action sequences are very stylish and choreography kicks ass.

Leaving a trail of cartoonish destruction in her wake, Harley has the most fun.

Starro the Conqueror rampaging through city is a sight to behold and plague of rats chewing monster to death from the inside was a fitting demise.

Soundtrack is typically great, and Zack Snyder serving as an executive producer is presumably why The Jim Carroll Band's People Who Died is heard.

Yeah, tune formed part of the end credits to Dawn of the Dead.

Maybe I'm among the minority, but apart from one very cool shot of King Shark ripping a dude in half, everything else about CG freak sucked.

Despite some issues, this pisses on previous abomination.

Having said that - how could it not?