Suicide Squad is posting great weekday numbers, beating even the vaunted Captain America: Civil War for a Tuesday box-office record. Hence my confusion. How could such a poorly reviewed film make so much money?
Because, as sometimes happens, despite a poor critical reception, a lot of people simply love it.
Movie critics and popular opinion often sync up pretty closely. But in the case of Suicide Squad, not so much. While three-quarters of reviewers gave the movie a bad review, almost the same percentage of Rotten Tomatoes users gave it a thumbs up. Their average rating was 7.4/10, compared to the critics’ 4.7/10. The experts panned the flick. The fans loved it.