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!!

Every now and then The Asylum do manage to hit the nail right on the head. Unfortunately, more than often they swing wide and miss even wider. And such was the case with the 2016 mockbuster "Sinister Squad".

I must admit that I entered this movie with little or no expectations at all, especially since it was going to be a rip off of "Suicide Squad" and also because I didn't recognize anyone in the movie. But mostly because this is after all another The Asylum release.

I managed to suffer a full 22 minutes and 12 seconds into the movie before I was ready to claw my eyes out and just simply downright gave up. I threw the towel in the ring and went to watch something else. I usually don't easily give up on a movie, but there was absolutely nothing compelling about "Sinister Squad". Nothing to make me want to sit there and hope for it to get better.

From what I managed to gather from what I saw was that the story was about fairytale and mythical beings being recruited for something. And that was about as much as I comprehended from the movie.

The acting was abysmal, as it usually turns out to be in these types of movies. So don't get your hopes up here, not even the least.

The effects and creature designs were poor, to say the least. If they at least had proper effects and CGI, or even just proper make-up and wardrobes for the acting talents, then perhaps I would have stayed for more than just a little over 22 minutes.

I lost every will to watch more of "Sinister Squad", and I am not even going to bother to return to finish the rest of the movie.

This is not the brightest of moments in the history of The Asylum. Now, mind you they do put out something good and entertaining every now and then, but "Sinister Squad" is a movie to avoid like a bad case of flu.

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!

It's the bare minimum of what could qualify to be the movie it's packaged to be. Not even one decimal point of an effort beyond that was made. Whoever is reading this, you or anyone you know, your grandmother or that kid who mows your lawn, could gather up a small number of free actors, ask around for an abandoned building you can film in for a day or two for free, have a video editor that can add basic smoke effects, and make a movie just like this.