Seeking to capitalise on the moderate commercial success of 2016's Suicide Squad, and blithely ignoring the critical panning that received, what we get is more of the same: gleeful ultraviolence from the homicidal protagonists, the only alterations being an even greater emphasis on milking it for gallows humour, since it's now the director of the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy Gunn at the helm, and a scenario which is more a rip-off of The Dirty Dozen. Of course, the one truly popular character of the first film, Margot Robbie's utterly cuckoo Harley Quinn, has to be there too, and Idris Elba to all intents and purposes is the same character as Will Smith's Deadshot, i.e. a lethal assassin with a problematic relationship with his estranged daughter.
What else? Well, the U.S. Government official who sends the misfits to their near-certain demise is really the biggest villain and there's an alien kaiju they have to eradicate to carry out their mission. All totally ludicrous of course, and accompanied by lashings of the customary CGI overkill. But oddly still more coherent and entertaining than the first instalment.
5/10
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