Suicide Squad set to break box office records - despite poor reviews

Suicide Squad may have no friends amongst critics, with the DC flick slammed with poor reviews; yet, that hasn’t stopped it from making a killing at its opening box office.

With such a stellar marketing campaign surrounding the film, its gargantuan box office opening shouldn’t come as any great surprise; the true test for Suicide Squad comes next weekend, when we’ll really see whether the gang can go the distance.

A small word of warning here – Batman v Superman also overcame its poor reviews to break the Easter Weekend box office record on its opening weekend, before suffering an 81% drop on its second weekend – the lowest for any comic book-inspired movie.