THE SUICIDE SQUAD Is Officially Certified Fresh On Rotten Tomatoes With A Very Impressive 96%

THE SUICIDE SQUAD Is Officially Certified Fresh On Rotten Tomatoes With A Very Impressive 96% THE SUICIDE SQUAD Is Officially Certified Fresh On Rotten Tomatoes With A Very Impressive 96%

Though that perfect 100% score did drop a little with the addition of a couple of negative reviews, James Gunn's The Suicide Squad is now officially certified fresh at 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.

By MarkCassidy - Aug 01, 2021 04:08 AM EST
Filed Under: The Suicide Squad

After receiving highly positive initial reactions and reviews since it hit theaters in The U.K., Ireland and several other locations on Friday, The Suicide Squad is now officially certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

James Gunn's R-rated DC Comics adventure was sitting pretty at 100% for a while, but after a couple of negative verdicts were added to the review aggregator, it's dropped slightly to 96%. That's still very impressive, of course, and Gunn has taken to Twitter to point out that this is the first time one of his movies has been certified fresh prior to its U.S. release.

In my review, I described The Suicide Squad as "a near pitch-perfect blend of tones and genres, which somehow coalesces to form not only the film of the year so far, but one of the most purely entertaining comic book movies you're ever likely to see." Josh also enjoyed it, but wasn't quite as impressed.

Have any of you had the chance to see The Suicide Squad yet? Do you plan on catching it in theaters or on HBO Max when it hits the U.S. on August 5? Let us know in the usual place, and check out an awesome new poster below.

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Mrcool210
Mrcool210 - 8/1/2021, 4:20 AM
That is fantastic that it's doing so well. I'll be watching black widow and the suicide squad in the same week so we'll see if that affects my judgement at all. It already was my most anticipated comic movie this year behind no way home.
dragon316
dragon316 - 8/1/2021, 4:52 AM
@Mrcool210 - glad someone here on this site have grown up use there brain everyone on this site thinks movie scores and reviews make movies money that’s stupid logic little kids way of life living both transformers sequels made billion back to back, and captain marvel made billion with good scores did people automatically like captain marvel with it having good scores and reviews
Footguy6449
Footguy6449 - 8/1/2021, 5:10 AM
@dragon316 -

Can I just say, I'm a huge fans of your well put together musings on the nature of our reliance on the Views of Critics.


Can you say Pirate Boots for me?
JustAChillFan
JustAChillFan - 8/1/2021, 4:21 AM
Congrats to DC, hopefully their fans don't have any issues with a movie being "funny or fun" it would really suck for those fans if they had been saying for years how they disliked funny movies. Can't see why they would say that though...
somekglguy
somekglguy - 8/1/2021, 4:22 AM
@JustAChillFan - Those are Snyder fans not DC fans because DC fans liked Aquaman and SHAZAM
dragon316
dragon316 - 8/1/2021, 4:50 AM
@JustAChillFan - have good movie scores and reviews mean shit did you like transforners movies both sequels back to back made billion did you like captain marvel that made billion white good score., live your life on reviews and critics scores you may as well go back live with your parents tell you what say do how dress in life
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 8/1/2021, 5:18 AM
@mboni - I’m a Snyder fan and I also liked Aquaman and Shazam. I’m also a Marvel and Sony fan as well. But most of all I’m a Comic book fan. I’m the type of person that’ll want to see a different take on movies based on comic books but can still appreciate the classic “ripped from the pages” interpretation too. Whatever pushes the genre forward, I’m all about it. Even Todd McFarlane’s take on his Spawn movie that focuses more on Twitch, I didn’t agree with that direction but if it would’ve ever gotten made I would’ve been there on opening day.
RocketRed
RocketRed - 8/1/2021, 5:18 AM
@dragon316 - Snyder [frick]ed up and got fired man. His movies sucked. Get over it.

Also [frick]ing learn punctuation. Jesus H. Macy. It's so hard trying to read this cluster[frick] that you call writing.
DeadClunge
DeadClunge - 8/1/2021, 4:29 AM
It was better than I thought it would be, I enjoyed it quite a lot.

Roll on the peacemaker show 🤣 dude is such a prick
DoubleD
DoubleD - 8/1/2021, 4:35 AM
GREAT NEWS! Thank you James Gunn for doing a AWESOME job.
dragon316
dragon316 - 8/1/2021, 4:47 AM
@DoubleD - you saw movie and like it who dies who lives live your life on reviews and critics scores you may as well go back live with your parents tell you what say do how dress in life
DoubleD
DoubleD - 8/1/2021, 6:56 AM
@dragon316 - Have NOT seen The Suicide Squad don't matter if I like it. The movie is a success either way.
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 8/1/2021, 8:51 AM
@dragon316 - just stfu. You do you and we do we. You really think they don't watch the movie and make their own decision if it's good, mediocre, or bad. Just stop those stupidass comments. I've had enough of you.
Arthorious
Arthorious - 8/1/2021, 9:14 AM
@DoubleD - Box Office predictions?
DoubleD
DoubleD - 8/1/2021, 10:52 AM
@Arthorious - Virus is picking and opening on HBOMax same time 70 Million Domestic. Predicting box office numbers is extremely hard to do.
Arthorious
Arthorious - 8/1/2021, 5:42 PM
@DoubleD - fair enough also is it opening overseas in China?
dragon316
dragon316 - 8/1/2021, 4:46 AM
Who the [frick] cares what score it gets people make movies money not critics not reviews
WakandanQueen
WakandanQueen - 8/1/2021, 4:50 AM
@dragon316 - Right?
WakandanQueen
WakandanQueen - 8/1/2021, 4:51 AM
IDRIS ELBA.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 8/1/2021, 5:00 AM
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 8/1/2021, 5:06 AM
I thought Rotten Tomatoes was tainted because of all the false reporting and suspected “review bombing” that site has accused of having. I’m not downplaying the success of Suicide Squad by any means. I haven’t seen it yet but it looks fantastic. My gripe is that Rotten Tomatoes has a weird history when it comes to a movie’s likability.
RocketRed
RocketRed - 8/1/2021, 5:20 AM
@WruceBayne - The review bombing is on the fans side of it.
PhoenixBlade
PhoenixBlade - 8/1/2021, 5:11 AM
TexasAvenger
TexasAvenger - 8/1/2021, 5:23 AM
@SamaelSaint - Thanks for the laugh lmao.
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