Starring: Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Cara Delevingne, Ike Barinholtz, Scott Eastwood, Karen Fukuhara, Adam Beach, Raymond Olubowale, Alex Meraz, Jim Parrack, Common
OUR RATING: ★★☆☆☆
Story: Written and directed by David Ayer, based on the DC Comics anti-hero team of the same name. Suicide Squade (2016) follows a secret government agency run by Amanda Waller (Viola Davis), named ARGUS who creates a task force comprised of super villains, the “Suicide Squad”. They are assigned to execute dangerous tasks in exchange for shorter prison sentences.
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Best Quotes
Griggs: Chow time! It’s time! Floyd, step up to the door. Dinner time.
Deadshot: Only my friends call me Floyd.
Griggs: You ain’t got no friends, Floyd.
Griggs: That is called loaf.
Deadshot: A loaf.
Griggs: It’s got a little bit of pasghetti in there. Toenails. Rat s**t. Everything a growing fella needs, like you.
Deadshot: One day, somehow, some way, I’m going to get out of here, and I’m going to rain down on you like the Holy Ghost.
Griggs: Man, you just threatened a staff member.
Griggs: [to Harley] You know the rules, hotness. You got to keep off this bars.
Harley Quinn: I’m bored. Play with me.
Griggs: You put five of my guards in the hospital, honey. No one’s going play with you.
Griggs: You sleep on the ground.
Harley Quinn: I sleep where I want, when I want, with who I want.
Griggs: Oh, man. I love you.
Amanda Waller: [referring to Deadshot] But everyone has a weakness, and a weakness can be leveraged.
Admiral Olsen: [referring to Deadshot] So now we have the man who never misses. Where’d you put him?
Amanda Waller: Let’s just say I put him in a hole and threw away the hole.
The Joker: What do we have here?
Harley Quinn: I did everything you said. I helped you.
The Joker: You helped me by erasing my mind, what few faded memories I had! No. You left me in a black hole of rage and confusion. Is that the medicine you practice, Dr. Quinzel?
Harley Quinn: What are you going to do? You going to kill me, Mr. J?
The Joker: What? Oh, I’m not going to kill you. I’m just going to hurt you really, really bad.
Harley Quinn: You think so? Well, I can take it.
The Joker: [to Harley as he puts a leather belt between her teeth] I wouldn’t want you to break those perfect porcelain cap teeth when the juice hits your brain.
Monster T: [looking over to Harley] You’re lucky man. You got a bad b**ch.
The Joker: Oh, that she is. The fire in my loins. The itch in my crotch. The one, the only, the infamous Harley Quinn!
Admiral Olsen: These are villains, Amanda. What makes you think you can control them?
Amanda Waller: Because getting people to act against their own self-interests for the national security of the United States is what I do for a living.
Harley Quinn: Are you the devil?
Amanda Waller: Maybe.
Deadshot: What’s this, the cheerleading tryouts?
Deadshot: Y’all jokers must be crazy.
Rick Flagg: [to Wallar] You notice these are criminals? They’re psychotic antisocial freaks. It makes no sense.
Rick Flagg: What are you really up to?
Amanda Waller: It’s a “need to know”, and, all you need to know is you work for me.
Rick Flagg: They warned me about you. My dumba** didn’t believe the stories.
Amanda Waller: Nobody does.
Harley Quinn: Hey, boys! Harley Quinn. How do you do? Huh? What was that? I should kill everyone and escape? Sorry. The voices.
Harley Quinn: [the others look at her] I’m kidding. Jeez. That’s not what they really said.
Rick Flagg: You disobey me, you die. You try to escape, you die. You otherwise irritate or vex me, and guess what? You die.
Harley Quinn: [puts up her hand] I’m known to be quite vexing. I’m just forewarning you.
Rick Flagg: You’re going somewhere very bad to do something that’ll get you killed. But until that happens, you’re my problem.
Deadshot: So was that like a pep talk?
Rick Flagg: Yeah, that was a pep talk.
Deadshot: You might want to work on your team motivation thing. You heard of Phil Jackson?
Rick Flagg: Yeah.
Deadshot: He’s like the gold standard, okay? Triangle, b**ch. Study
Amanda Waller: Complete the mission you get time off your prison sentence. Fail the mission, you die. Anything happens to Colonel Flag, I’ll kill every single one of you. Remember, I’m watching. I see everything.
Rick Flagg: There’s your pep talk.
Deadshot: Compared to your s**t, she killed it. So that’s it?
Rick Flagg: This is Katana. She’s got my back. She can cut all of you in half with one sword stroke, just like mowing the lawn. I would advise not getting killed by her. Her sword traps the souls of its victims.
Harley Quinn: Harley Quinn. Nice to meet you. Love your perfume. What is that? The stench of death?
Deadshot: I don’t know if they told you, but I’m a hitman. I’m not a fireman, I don’t save people.
Deadshot: You know the dark places too. Don’t act like you don’t.
Rick Flagg: I’m a soldier. And you’re a serial killer who takes credit cards. When the shooting starts, and it will, you’ll cut and run.
Rick Flag: [as Harley smashes a shop window and takes a purse] Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you people?
Harley Quinn: We’re bad guys, it’s what we do.
The Joker: [to Harley] I am not someone who is loved. I’m an idea. A state of mind. I execute my will according to my plan, and you, Doctor, are not part of my plan.
Harley Quinn: [to Deadshot] I know how the world works, okay? And when it comes to the heart, everyone for themselves, right?
The Joker: Question. Would you die for me?
Harley Quinn: Yes.
The Joker: That’s too easy. Would you live for me? Hm?
Harley Quinn: Yes.
'Desire becomes surrender. Surrender becomes power.' - The Joker (Suicide Squade) Share on X
Deadshot: You don’t kill as many people as I’ve killed and still sleep like a kitten if you feel s**t like love.
Harley Quinn: Another textbook sociopath.
Rick Flagg: Who’ll accept the consequences.
Amanda Waller: I am your consequence.
Deadshot: Here’s to honor among thieves
Katana: I’m not a thief.
Deadshot: Oh, she’s not a thief.
Captain Boomerang: I actually prefer to think of myself as an asset relocation specialist.
Deadshot: Well, we almost pulled it off. Despite what everybody thought.
Diablo: We weren’t picked to succeed, you know that, right? We were all chosen to fail.
Deadshot: Yeah, I know that. Worst part of it is, they’re going to blame us for the whole thing. And they can’t have people knowing the truth. We’re the patsies, the cover-up. Don’t forget, we’re the bad guys.
Deadshot: B**ch, I’m having a drink. I’m breathing fresh air. And for two sweet seconds I had hope.
Diablo: You had hope, huh? Hope don’t stop the wheel from turning, my brother.
Diablo: See, when I get mad, I lose control. You know, I just, I don’t know what I do. Till it’s done.
Captain Boomerang: And the kids?
Harley Quinn: He killed them. Didn’t you? Own that s**t. Own it! What do you think was going to happen? Huh?
Harley Quinn: What, you were just thinking you can have a happy family and coach little leagues, and make car payments? Normal is a setting on the dryer. People like us, we don’t get normal!
Captain Boomerang: Why is it always a knife fight every single time you open your mouth? You know, outside you’re amazing. But inside, you’re ugly.
Harley Quinn: We all are. We all are!
Harley Quinn: [looks at Killer Croc] Except for him. He’s ugly on the outside too.
Killer Croc: Not me, shorty. I’m beautiful.
Harley Quinn: Yeah, you are.
Captain Boomerang: You know what they say about the crazy ones.
Amanda Waller: [mid-credits lines, regarding metahumans] Why, Mr. Wayne?
Bruce Wayne: I just like to make friends.
Amanda Waller: That’s the difference between us. You believe in friendship, I believe in leverage.
Bruce Wayne: Goodnight.
Amanda Waller: You look tired. You should stop working nights.
Bruce Wayne: You should shut it down, or my friends and I will do it for you.