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Suicide Squad
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"Suicide Squad" is a 2016 action film directed by David Ayer that follows a team of imprisoned supervillains recruited by the government to carry out dangerous missions. The film is part of the DC Comics movie universe and became a notable entry in superhero cinema through its focus on morally complex antiheroes rather than traditional heroes.
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5.9From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted prison sentences.
Cast
- Will Smith as Deadshot
- Jared Leto as The Joker
- Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn
- Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag
- Viola Davis as Amanda Waller
- Jai Courtney as Boomerang
Themes
- secret mission
- superhero
- anti hero
- villain
- supervillain
- dc extended universe (dceu)
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Ratings
IMDb
5.9/10
758,745 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
26%
Metacritic
40/100
- Year
- 2016
- Runtime
- 123 min
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 18 wins & 41 nominations total
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Encyclopedic overview
Suicide Squad is a 2016 American superhero film based on the anti-hero team from DC Comics. It is the third installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). The film was written and directed by David Ayer and stars an ensemble cast including Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ike Barinholtz, Scott Eastwood, and Cara Delevingne. In the film, a secret government agency led by Amanda Waller recruits imprisoned supervillains to execute dangerous black ops missions and save the world from a powerful threat in exchange for reduced sentences.
By February 2009, a Suicide Squad film was in development at Warner Bros. Ayer signed on to write and direct in September 2014, and by October the casting process had begun. Principal photography began in Toronto on April 13, 2015, with additional filming in Chicago, and ended in August that year.
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