2021 · action · comedy · adventure
The Suicide Squad
Directed by James Gunn2h 12m2021
Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X as they are dropped off at the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese.
Our read: The Suicide Squad (2021) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · comedy · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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