Suicide Squad (2016)

Suicide Squad rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb5.9/10· 759K votes

Rotten Tomatoes26%

Metacritic40%

TMDb5.917/10· 22K votes

With 26% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 5.9/10 on IMDb and 40/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been modest.

About Suicide Squad

From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted prison sentences.

Cast of Suicide Squad

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  Will Smith

  as Deadshot

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  Jared Leto

  as The Joker

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  Margot Robbie

  as Harley Quinn

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  Joel Kinnaman

  as Rick Flag

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  Viola Davis

  as Amanda Waller

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  Jai Courtney

  as Boomerang

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  Jay Hernandez

  as Diablo

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  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  as Killer Croc

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  Cara Delevingne

  as June Moone / Enchantress

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  Ike Barinholtz

  as Griggs

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  Scott Eastwood

  as Lieutenant GQ Edwards

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  Adam Beach

  as Slipknot

Suicide Squad facts

Budget

$175M

Box office

$749.2M

Collection

Suicide Squad Collection

Our take on Suicide Squad

David Ayer's 2016 DC film assembles a squad of jailed supervillains, coerced into deniable black-ops missions for the government in exchange for reduced sentences. Framed as action-adventure fantasy, it trades traditional heroism for a rogues' gallery of antiheroes forced to cooperate under threat. The appeal lies in the ensemble's mismatched personalities and the promise of watching villains take center stage rather than lurk at the margins. If you enjoy loud, irreverent comic-book spectacle driven by attitude and colorful characters, it offers plenty of that. Viewers seeking tight plotting or tonal consistency may feel it wobbles. Approach it as a boisterous, character-forward romp rather than a careful narrative.