Sinister Squad

The reviews for this are almost uniformly negative but I thought it was daft fun. Are the performances Oscar winners? No, but a couple of them are pretty good in an eye-rolling scenery-chewing way. Is the plot derivative? Of course it is but so are a lot of movies with a hundred times the budget. Is the title a blatant cash-in? No question about it. In spite of all that I enjoyed it. (And I also enjoyed the two Avengers Grimm movies which have stolen very little beyond the actual title). Frankly I enjoyed it about ten times as much as Suicide Squad which I truly do rate as one of the worst films I have ever seen.

So here we have a copy of suicide squad.

Even the poster uses the same colours and style to sell the movie...so they expect us to make a mistake and think this is really suicide squad????

that'll never happen.

The thing for me is this..it was made on a budget of almost nothing...bad acting...bad EVERYTHING....

so I ask this.... what is Suicide Squads excuse?? Millions put into it with some big names...and it's as bad as this rubbish.

Both as bad as each other to be honest!!

Have made no secret in the past of intensely disliking, and even outright hating a lot, a vast majority of The Asylum's (near-universally maligned for good reason) output, though there is curiosity as to whether they are capable of making something good and compulsive about their output's badness. Admittedly, The Asylum do have a small group of watchable films and the occasional (big emphasis on that word) above average one, unfortunately outweighed by the lacklustre at best and often dreadful films they churn out.

'Sinister Squad' is not quite among The Asylum's all time worst, at least it didn't offend as much as others like 'Operation Dunkirk' did, but it is down there with the film that very nearly reached that distinction. The first part of the tagline is correct, the second part couldn't be more wrong. Sinister is also the last word to describe 'Sinister Squad' too.

Despite what people might assume, it is not a blatant rip-off of 'Suicide Squad', having been made and released before that film was released. But like 'Geo-Disaster' did with 'Geostorm' and 'Operation Dunkirk' did with 'Dunkirk', 'Sinister Squad' capitalised upon it. Was one of many who didn't think 'Suicide Squad' was good at all, but compared to this dreck it is a piece of art. Take absolutely no pleasure giving my lowest possible rating and a negative review, being encouraging and generous on the most part, but it is deserved here.

Visually, 'Sinister Squad' looks incredibly cheap even for something made on a low budget. It's very drably, garishly and sometimes dizzyingly shot, incoherently edited (bacon-slicer-like) with glaring and unforgivably sloppy continuity errors and even the scenery doesn't make much impression despite being actually the least bad aspect of the film. Even worse are the pathetic effects, garish make-up and shoe-string budget-like costumes.

Can remember little about the music, which tended to be intrusive, annoying and out of place. The script makes little sense, sounds awkward constantly and on the wrong side of camp throughout.

There is absolutely nothing thrilling, tense, suspenseful, emotionally investable or fun about the story. The predictability may have been forgivable if the film was actually engaging let alone exciting but it fails to be either throughout. Like so many films from The Asylum, 'Sinister Squad' is basically non-stop dullness and intelligence-insulting ridiculousness, with unintentional humour because of the excessive cheese, bouts of mawkish and stilted melodrama and irritating character behaviours that makes one endear to them even less in a film with not one interesting or rootable character.

Won't talk about much the muddled direction, with no style, taste, coherence, direction of story or drama or sense of knowing what to do with the film, or the all round weak at best performances.

To conclude, super bad all right. 1/10 Bethany Cox

Why even bother to have a review section for any films made by The Asylum?

They specialize in really bad knockoffs as a ploy to catch some of the money that will be spent on the real film - Suicide Squad - an upcoming film that is expected to pay off big. It obviously works for them - because they have been doing this for years now ...

I have yet to see anything original and/or even marginally decent come from their studios yet. The movies have no real humor and the plot only loosely, and I mean loosely, follows that of the film they are parodying. They know that once you have paid for the film that it is too late. They don't survive on word of mouth or return customers - unless you let them get one over on you again. ;-)

Next time you see a film with a familiar sounding name - check out who the studio behind it is first. Don't let The Asylum get your hard earned money .....

*If the other reviewer had known this - they would've got the 0 he originally wanted to hand down. It only looks original because they always beat the blockbuster in releasing - they have to or their ploy doesn't work ...

I would give 0 but it deserves a 3 at least for the originality of the story.

That is it though. The acting, the directing, the filming, the music, all in this movie is bad. I wonder how can people really get things like this out on the market...although if we think Microsoft....

It is confusing from the beginning to the end. You get shoved in all kinds of directions, the plot is scattered around different explanations of different characters, if you pay attention, or try to, you might understand the plot behind all the chaos.

The director should go back to school or attend one. I know 15 yold that directs their non-actors better than this. He has put some humour on the movie, like if it needed any, it is funny as it is.

This should be classified in Comedy/fantasy, but even then, it would not deserve the plastic they wasted to film this...I hope it was all digital, at least the planet will not suffer from such a terrible flick!