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This lot are the
good guys? Cripes!

Suicide Squad

Bad? Without a doubt! Mad? Almost certainly. Dangerous? Don’t even get us started!
“Gentlemen, ladies,
what if Superman
had decided to fly
down, rip off the roof of the
White House, and grab the
President right out of the
Oval Office? Who would
have stopped him?”
That’s the question
America’s best and brightest
are asking themselves at the
start of Suicide Squad, the
third film in DC’s Extended
Universe series following
2013’s Man of Steel and this
year’s Batman V Superman:
Dawn of Justice.
These elite minds
eventually decide that to
stop a super-charged being

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you need a super-charged
baddie, or rather a team
of them, and thus Task Force
X (as the group is officially
known) is born.
This rag-tag and volatile
ensemble is made up of the
world’s most fiendish felons
including Joker (Jared Leto),
Harley Quinn (Margot
Robbie), Deadshot (Will
Smith), Captain Boomerang
(Jai Courtney), El Diablo (Jay
Hernandez) and Killer Croc
(Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje).
In exchange for clemency,
these incarcerated guys
and gals (who have all found
themselves behind bars
at the hands of Batman)

must carry out dangerous
black-ops missions for the
US government. If they die
along the way, then that’s
their tough cheese (which
is where the Suicide Squad
nickname comes from).
If they disobey, try to escape,
irritate or even vex, they
also die... Harsh!
After a really long line of
superhero films, it’s refreshing
to see one where the bad guys
take centre stage. With such
an unpredictable line-up of
characters, it also means that
all bets are off in terms of the
plot. After all, would you trust
this motley crew to do the
right thing? No, us neither!