Suicide Squad: 5 Things Critics Got Right, 5 Things They Got Wrong

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Suicide Squad is definitely the product of (at least) two competing visions, just as recent reports have indicated. There is a darker, more psychological story pushing back against a more comedic baddies being bad romp. It still kind of works, but critics have fairly noted how these different visions have made the film uneven at times.

The first sign of this problem really should have been seen months ago when the first official trailer was so tonally different from the footage director David Ayer brought to Comic-Con in July 2015. Somewhere along the way, Warner Bros. lost confidence in Ayer's darker approach and it probably had more to do with Batman v Superman than anything else.

Suicide Squad has the misfortune of suffering for the sins of its predecessor. Again, this is not something that completely destroys the film. It's weirdly appropriate for a movie about crazy villains to be uneven in places, regardless of whether or not it was intentional.

Unfortunately, it is still something that opened the film up to another critical shot.