Suicide Squad, The

[Opened Aug. 6 in theaters and on HBO Max.] When a no-nonsense warden (Viola Davis) sends an eclectic group of oddball, supervillain convicts (Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, David Dastmalchian, Daniela Melchior, Jai Courtney, Steve Agee, voiceover by Sylvester Stallone, Nathan Fallon, Sean Gunn, and Flula Borg) on an essentially a suicide mission lead by a captain (Joel Kinnaman) to take down a tower that houses a gigantic, cartoonish, telepathic, alien starfish and prisoners undergoing cruel experiments in James Gunn's bizarre, over-the-top, action-packed, exceedingly wacky, entertaining, violent, gory, fast-paced, star-dotted (Taika Waititi, Storm Reid, Alice Braga, Michael Rooker, Peter Capaldi, Pete Davidson, Mayling Ng, Julio Ruiz, Tinashe Kajese, Jennifer Holland, Lloyd Kaufman, John Ostrander, and Stephen Blackehart), 132-minute comedic spoof, they encounter one obstacle after another, including Corto Maltese major general (Joaquin Cosio), the island dictator (Juan Diego Botto), and heavily armed guerilla forces.
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