Suicide Squad

Suicide Squad: Rebirth #1

/ / Comics

Suicide Squad: Rebirth #1Suicide Squad: Rebirth #1 proves to be an intersting way to introduce a streamlined version of Task Force X. Presented from the view of Amanda Waller, who almost has her program decommissioned by the President, the comic focuses largely on the Suicide Squad’s creator offering a job to Rick Flag.

Waller finds Flag rotting in Guantanamo Bay (although he still appears to be a honest man and good soldier who just refused to accept the wrong order). With so much focus on Waller and Flag here we don’t really get much in the way of the team itself who is operating in China to stop a criminal army possessed with super-powers thanks to a meta-bomb created by a kidnapped scientist.

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Suicide Squad

/ / Movie Reviews
  • Title: Suicide Squad
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Suicide SquadMaybe DC should shy away from its major heroes and concentrate on the fringes of the DCU. I don’t know that you should call a $175 million theatrical release with an excessive marketing campaign a B-movie but that’s exactly what Suicide Squad is. Writer/director David Ayer delivers an unapologetically trashy B-movie that, despite its faults, is fun.

Sure, the script spends far too long awkwardly introducing the various super-villains thrown together by Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) for her super-secret black ops squad. And yes, the final act suffers from a villain more interested in putting on a giant light show than presenting a coherent threat. However, somewhere in-between these problematic areas Ayer provides room for his cast of malcontents to shine.

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First Look – Suicide Squad

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  • Title: Suicide Squad
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DC gave San Diego Comic-Con guests this first look at the upcoming Suicide Squad film. Based on the comics of the same name, Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Jai Courtney, Cara Delevingne, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jay Hernandez, Adam Beach, and Karen Fukuhara star as criminals thrown together by the United States Government to fulfill black ops missions around the world. The movie opens in theaters next August.

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