Photo date: 8/21/2021. The Suicide Squad. Walmart enhanced half pallet display.
This film does exactly what it sets out to do. Every blood-soaked frame of it is self-possessed, self-aware, self-assured and full of a very specific intent. And that intent is to entertain everyone and anyone who is eager to see this film — that specific subset of humanity who have circled the film's premiere date on their calendars.
I do not count myself among them, yet I sincerely envy those people, because they are going to get their every expectation precisely met, and then exceeded.
This is a bigger, more accomplished film than the first one — but of course it couldn't help but be. And those audience members who thought the 2016 film was held back because of its PG-13 rating? They're gonna walk out of this feeling vindicated.