

The tepid response to David Ayer's film has piled further pressure on Warner to finally produce a film to match the critical success of rival studio Marvel's superhero universe.Īpril's Captain America: Civil War made more than $1.1 billion worldwide and has a 90 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 320 reviews.ĭavid defended the movie, quoting Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata's famous line translated as "I'd rather die standing than live on my knees." It does not offer its own critical assessment of movies.īased on 88 reviews, it currently shows a 31 percent rating for the hotly anticipated Suicide Squad, which hits cinemas on Friday. Rotten Tomatoes works out the percentage of reviews that can be deemed positive. The petition at had received almost 17,000 signatures by midday on Thursday. and that affects people's opinion even if it's a really great (movie)."

Thousands of angry DC Comics fans are backing a petition calling for the closure of reviews aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, after a lukewarm response to the supervillain blockbuster Suicide Squad.Ī user calling himself Abdullah Coldwater of Alexandria, Egypt, started the campaign accusing the site of giving "unjust bad reviews.

