10 Movies That Are Basically One Big Apology

There aren't many films in recent years more disappointing than 2016's Suicide Squad.

Off the back of an excellent marketing campaign, which suggested the film would be the DCEU's answer to Guardians of the Galaxy, it turned out to be a messy, weirdly boring superhero flick that had evidently been chopped up and re-shaped during post-production by studio execs.

Director David Ayer claims his original cut of the movie is vastly superior - one which, post-Snyder Cut, Warner Bros. still insists we'll never see - but beyond Margot Robbie's strong performance as Harley Quinn, the gritty team-up mostly fell flat.

But this summer, the DCEU may well get its own Guardians of the Galaxy-type vehicle, given that Guardians' director James Gunn has helmed a soft reboot of Suicide Squad - The Suicide Squad.

Reuniting most of the key cast members from the first film with a new ensemble cast, The Suicide Squad is a half-sequel, half-do-over which, with its R-rating and irreverent tone, should hopefully be the movie we all hoped to see back in 2016.

As successful as Gunn has been within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it'll be great to see him let off the leash with a more permissive content rating and, considering the film's lack of direct links to the wider DCEU, freedom to do pretty much whatever he wants.