The cast of new anti-hero movie “Suicide Squad” defended the film on Wednesday from scathing reviews, saying it was for the fans to decide if it does justice to the DC Comics characters it is based on.
Cara Delevingne, who plays the Enchantress said that while “this movie isn’t perfect,” it was made for the fans.
“Suicide Squad,” premiered on Friday and follows a rogue group of anti-heroes with special powers - Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Boomerang, Killer Croc and El Diablo - who are held hostage by Gotham’s government to use as weapons to protect the city. The film has a 31 percent rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.
Will Smith, who plays Deadshot, commended the film’s writer-director David Ayer for weaving together the stories of 10 characters and setting up a new world within Warner Bros.’ expanding cinematic superhero universe.
The flurry of negative reviews led more than 17,000 people on Wednesday to sign an online Change.org petition calling for Rotten Tomatoes to be shut down. Abdullah Saleh, a 22 year-old university student in Alexandria, Egypt, launched the petition, telling Reuters he felt “there is some kind of pattern for movie critics to give DC Extended Universe movies bad reviews.”
“I created the petition just to gather DC Fans and express their anger just for fun. I didn’t mean it to be taken that serious,” Saleh said. He later suspended the petition, saying “the only thing that it does is spreading a speech of hate and online fighting.”
It is expected to gross $125 million in North America when it opens this weekend, according to box office analysts.
