Tag: Rotten Tomatoes

‘Suicide Squad’ beats ‘Bourne’ with huge debut: film industry group

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Defying a barrage of dismal reviews, the DC comics-inspired film “Suicide Squad” topped the box office with $135.1 million in sales this weekend, according to industry tracker Exhibitor Relations estimates. Starring Will Smith, Jared Leto and Margot Robbie as a band of deadly criminals recruited to execute dangerous black-ops missions, the film has an average critical score of 4.7 out of 10 on the reviews aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes. […]

‘Suicide Squad’ fans demand closure of film site

by Frankie TAGGART LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — 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 supervillain blockbuster “Suicide Squad.” A poster calling himself Abdullah Coldwater of Alexandria, Egypt, started the campaign accusing the site of giving “unjust bad reviews… and that affects people’s opinion even if it’s a really great (movie).” The petition at change.org had […]