Acceptably Adult

I saw Suicide Squad . There are spoilers within this review, so if you don’t want to read them, don’t read the review. Also, I review movies based on whether or not they’re worth the money to see them, which is variable based on when you go, and where you see it, and the time to watch it, which is, sadly, constant and in increasingly short supply as you become more of an adult. The TL;DR It’s a pretty good summer movie, but there’s a better movie that you can almost see in the shadow of what is on the screen. Though I was always a Marvel kid growing up, I haven’t read comics in forever, and I’m loving a lot of the DC television stuff, so I don’t think I’m horribly biased. Suicide Squad is a perfectly acceptable summer popcorn flick. It’s not Deadpool , it’s not The Avengers or Captain America: Civil War , but then again, it’s also not Man of Steel* , so it has that going for it. Probably around a 6.5 out of 10. Good enough to watch, probably not something you’ll go back to aga...