The Suicide Squad Review: 9 Ups & 1 Down

3. It's Brilliantly Paced

Proving once again that no great movie is too long and no bad movie short enough, The Suicide Squad runs about 10 minutes longer than the 2016 version, but feels so much breezier.

Gunn demonstrates once again that he knows how to keep a blockbuster engine chugging along speedily, never sticking around in one place for too long or tiring the audience out with excessive reams of exposition.

He is a quintessential "show, don't tell" filmmaker, and at the end of the movie's breathless 132 minutes, you'll likely be surprised that the end credits have arrived already.

In an era where so many tentpoles feel like they're painfully elongated amid the misguided belief that "more movie = better movie," The Suicide Squad earns every deranged second of its runtime.