PREVIEW: The Suicide Squad (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Margot Robbie (I, Tonya), Idris Elba (Pacific Rim), John Cena (Blockers), Joel Kinnaman (The Secrets We Keep), Sylvester Stallone (Rocky), Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Jai Courtney (Terminator Genisys), Peter Capaldi (In The Loop), David Dastmalchian (Ant-Man), Daniela Melchior (The Black Book), Michael Rooker (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer), Alice Braga (The New Mutants), Pete Davidson (The King of Staten Island), Nathan Fillion (Serenity), Sean Gunn (The Belko Experiment), Flula Borg (Pitch Perfect 2), Mayling Ng (Acceleration), Steve Agee (God Bless America), Joaquín Cosío (Quantum of Solace), Storm Reid (The Invisible Man), Julio Ruiz (Home Sweet Hell), Tinashe Kajese (Day Zero), Jennifer Holland (Brightburn), Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy), director, writer; Charles Roven (The Dark Knight) and Peter Safran (Aquaman), producers; John Murphy (Kick-Ass), composer; Henry Braham (The Golden Compass), cinematographer; Fred Raskin (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) and Christian Wagner (Man on Fire), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Government operative Amanda Waller (Davis) assembles a group of imprisoned supervillains to form a taskforce designed to stomp out criminal activity across the globe. Among the recruits, led by Rick Flag (Kinnaman), are Harley Quinn (Robbie), mercenary Bloodsport (Elba), psychotic killer Peacemaker (Cena), and an anthropomorphic fish-human hybrid known as King Shark (Stallone). They and numerous other villains are sent to the South American island of Corto Maltese to overthrow a ruthless dictator and destroy a Nazi-era prison that conducted mysterious experiments on its inhabitants…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

James Gunn, on loan from Marvel thanks to his (brief) firing, brings a much-needed jolt of energy and consistency to a DC property in dire need of a fresh reboot, and has assembled a fine cast of anti-heroes to outshine one another to often darkly hilarious effect.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 30TH JULY 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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