SUICIDE SQUAD: Now That You've Seen It, What Did You Think?

The critical response to Suicide Squad has been pretty harsh. It has a 26% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is an aggregate score from multiple film critics. This led to a petition to shut down the website before the film was released. It's interesting how film critics who study film in school and watch movies obsessively would have such a different opinion on the last three DC cineverse films than general audiences. This had lead to some tinfoil hat fanboys theorizing a massive conspiracy to give the DC cineverse films bad reviews.

Joey Paur, GeekTyrant's Editor in Chief loved the film and thought it was "Freakin' Awesome" and gave it an 8/10. Some of the GeekTyrant team has seen it and these are their mini-reviews.

Derek Campbell from the Tyrant Nation podcast:

"Saw Suicide Squad last night. The critics are still unnecessarily harsh in my opinion, but to agree with them, there were definitely problems. Overall though, I liked the film. The characters were great! They nailed that realm. Just the execution of the whole film was misplaced in a lot of ways. Regardless, go see it! At the very least see it for the Joker and Harley Quinn — amazing performances."

Dustin Orgill, writer for GameTyrant:

"Suicide Squad is extremely fun (Harley Quinn) but also frustratingly flawed. My only hope is movie directors will start to realize that it's the humor and human elements that resonate, while big cheesy CG villains and encounters do not."

GeekTyrant writer Willard Brannen:

"Suicide Squad is a LOT of things, too many in fact. Despite that, David Ayer seems to have found a spark of some magic in the doom and gloom of DC's cinematic universe. But only a spark."

Wow, what a mixed bag of reviews and lots of different takes on the same film.

Now that you've seen Suicide Squad:

What did you think of the movie going in?
What was the film's greatest weakness?
What did it get right?
Would you watch a sequel?