With David Ayer's (allegedly) compromised and lacklustre 2016 Suicide Squad still within memory, James Gunn's 2021 take on the material sees a director whose wacky freewheeling style feels a much better fit deliver a much more entertaining movie. It is pretty much what you expect from a James Gunn movie, blending the quirkiness and energy of his early low-budget films with his more recent blockbuster sensibilities to good purpose. From the lack of preamble at the start which throws the viewer directly into the action and the characters right through to the utterly bizarre yet very effectively-realised final act (which thankfully does not involve a swirly-clouds-in the-sky CGI effect), the film's fast pace, gleefully wicked humour and daftness, endearing characters and sharp wanton violence does justice to the material and makes for a very enjoyable slice of action nonsense.
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