It is ridiculous, though that didn’t bother me, maybe because I wanted to see where Ducournau was going to take things next.

It only wants to be uplifting and celebratory. Since it succeeds at those things, it doesn’t need to be anything else.

This isn’t top-shelf Marvel. Still, it is a fun entry,

The formula is fine, the cast is game, yet the movie isn’t very funny.

It defies easy synopsis. It is about art and performance, reality and artificiality. It is one of the best movies of the year.

Take away any personality and you have the story of a guy running around Greece while bleeding. It is about as entertaining as it sounds.

While still flawed, The Suicide Squad is a huge improvement. It knows what it wants to be and has fun with its premise.

By the end, it was a little much; still, seeing the Looney Tunes doing their thing again almost made the onslaught of Warner IP worth it.

How it plays will depend on how you feel about style over substance amid straight-faced ridiculousness. I found it to be pretty fun.

It is a long, dull slog through cliché after cliché, with obvious setups, poorly executed payoffs and loud noises in place of tension.