Petition To Shut Down Rotten Tomatoes Over Bad Suicide Squad Reviews

The reviews of ‘Suicide Squad’ are in… and it’s not pretty.

DC’s latest movie foray has fared little better than the much-hated ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ at the hands of the critics.

– Anton Yelchin’s parents suing Chrysler for wrongful death
– Thandie Newton ‘groped’ by male co-star
– Deadwood Script Is Being Written

So far it’s running with a pretty lowly 35% ‘fresh’ rating on reviews aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes (BvS got 27%).

But now a petition has been launched to shut down the website by the DC Comics faithful, which is, somewhat incomprehensibly, blaming the site for the bad reviews.

This is despite the fact that the site doesn’t publish its own reviews, but simply collates the reviews published elsewhere, measuring which come in as positive and which come in as negative.

“We need this site to be shut down because It’s Critics always give The DC Extended Universe movies unjust Bad Reviews,” it reads.

“Like 1 – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016.

“2 – Suicide Squad 2016.

“And that Affects people’s opinion even if it’s a really great movies.”

Egyptian fan Abdullah Coldwater set up the petition which, astonishingly, has over 7000 signatures.

But it seems that there’s little that can be done now to temper the critical dislike of the movie.

Vulture’s David Edelstein said that the movie ‘should have been been kept locked away’, adding that it’s ‘the year’s most muddled piece of storytelling’.

“Who stole the soul of Suicide Squad?” asked Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers. “I’d say it’s Ayer’s willingness to go all limp-d**k and compromise his hardcore action bona fides for a PG-13 crowdpleaser that would rather ingratiate than cut deep, or even cut at all.”

The Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy added: “A puzzlingly confused undertaking that never becomes as cool as it thinks it is, Suicide Squad assembles an all-star team of supervillains and then doesn’t know what to do with them.”

Others liked it fine, however, Dan Jolin in Empire writing: “Like Avengers Assemble forced through a Deadpool mangle, Suicide Squad gives new life to DC’s big-screen universe. So bad-to-the-bone it’s good.”

Time Out’s Dave Calhoun called it ‘a twisted B-side to some of the slicker comic book movies’.

For his part, director David Ayer has stood up for his work.

He tweeted:

For non-Zapata fans, the quote translates as ‘I’d prefer to die standing, than to live always on my knees’.

He added:

‘Suicide Squad’ is out on August 5 across the UK.

Image credits: Warner Bros