8 Ways Suicide Squad Improved On Batman V Superman

If you boil Dawn Of Justice down to its key component – and you totally can – it’s about Batman and Superman punching each other in the face. Why it takes two hours for them to get smashing is the question, and the needlessly convoluted story surrounding them is a massive drag.

Lex Luthor’s seething hatred for the Man Of Steel is poorly defined – there’s some guff about angels and demons – and his plan to set him up for the massacre of a village is plain baffling. In contrast, Suicide Squad is a relatively straight forward, Dirty Dozen style affair. A group of anti-heroes with unique skills is assembled to fight a threat, and there’s not a whole lot to distract from that mission.

Sure, the actual motives of Enchantress and her bro could have been better defined beyond “destroy everything”, and the Joker subplot went nowhere fast, but there’s no head-scratching confusion over who's doing what. We follow the team on a dangerous mission, and after a rough battle they complete it; Zach, take notes for next time.