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| Directed by | Sam Liu |
| Written by | Alan Burnett |
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| Produced by | Sam Liu |
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| Edited by | Christopher D. Lozinski |
| Music by | Robert J. Kral |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Home Entertainment |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay is a 2018 Americanadult animatedsuperhero film produced byWarner Bros. Animation and distributed byWarner Bros. Home Entertainment. The film was produced and directed bySam Liu and written byAlan Burnett (his last work before his retirement). It is the 32nd film of theDC Universe Animated Original Movies and the tenth film of theDC Animated Movie Universe. The voice cast includesChristian Slater asDeadshot,Vanessa Williams asAmanda Waller andBilly Brown asBen Turner / Bronze Tiger. The film was released digitally on March 27, 2018, and on DVD and Blu-ray on April 10.
Three years prior,Amanda Waller dispatchesTask Force X, a black ops squad consisting of criminals with nanite bombs implanted in their heads, to retrieve a hard drive containing leaked intelligence fromTobias Whale. After succeeding in the mission,Count Vertigo andJewelee betray the team to steal the drive for themselves. Having overheard their intentions through the group's communication system, Waller uses Vertigo's bomb to kill him beforeDeadshot kills Jewelee to spare her the same fate.
In the present, Waller is diagnosed with a terminal illness but learns of the "Get Out of Hell Free" card, a powerful relic said to grant the owner access to heaven regardless of the sins they committed in life upon their death. Learning further the card is in the possession of a formerDoctor Fate, Steel Maxum, Waller recruits Deadshot,Harley Quinn,Captain Boomerang,Killer Frost,Copperhead, andBronze Tiger to retrieve it. The squad locates Maxum at a strip club but is confronted byProfessor Zoom,Silver Banshee, andBlockbuster, who also seek the card. Despite heavy resistance, the squad takes advantage of Zoom's uncharacteristically waning powers to escape with Maxum, only to learnScandal Savage andKnockout already stole the card onVandal Savage's behalf and abandon him.
The squad arrives at Scandal and Knockout's apartment, but is intercepted by Vandal and his men, who take the card and grievously injure Knockout. As they escape, Zoom secretly places a tracker on Vandal's airship. Following this, Deadshot breaks off to see his daughter Zoe, but Tiger forces him to stay on the mission. After kidnapping Frost, removing her bomb, and convincing her to join them, Zoom's group uses her to lure the squad into a trap, wounding Tiger. They drop him off at a hospital before Scandal calls them to reveal Vandal's whereabouts as revenge for what happened to Knockout.
The squad eventually locates Vandal, learning that he taskedProfessor Pyg with implanting the card in him in such a way that any attempt to remove it will expend its magic. Zoom's group soon arrives and subdues everyone present. After Deadshot questions his failing powers and use of underlings, Zoom reveals he was shot by another timeline'sBatman,[a] but drew energy from theSpeed Force to slow down the moment of his death, which limits the use of his powers. Zoom uses his phasing ability to remove the card from Vandal without using its magic, killing Vandal in the process. Frost then kills Banshee and Blockbuster to take the card for herself, but Copperhead fights her until Waller detonates his bomb, killing them both.
Boomerang subsequently betrays the squad for the card, but Tiger arrives and stops him. Zoom incapacitates Boomerang and fatally wounds Tiger; Tiger injures Zoom, allowing Deadshot to execute him, which sends him back to his original death. In return, Deadshot gives Tiger the card, then upon his death gives the powerless card to Waller. Having served his time, Deadshot visits Zoe.
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay was announced atSan Diego Comic-Con in July 2017.[2] It features an original story by Alan Burnett, marking his last film before retirement.
On March 21, a 12-issue digital comic was released on a weekly basis. Written byJeff Parker with artwork byMatthew Dow Smith, Agustin Padilla,Stefano Raffaele, and Cat Staggs, the story takes place immediately after the events of the film as Amanda Waller is still looking to avoid death. With theSpectre bearing down on her, she enlists Jason Blood a.k.a.Etrigan into her team for their latest mission.[3][4][5] The series was then released in a trade paperback collecting all 12 issues on February 13, 2019.[6]
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay earned $851,440 from domestic DVD sales and $1,976,142 from domestic Blu-ray sales, bringing its total domestic home video earnings to $2,834,427.[7]
Thereview aggregatorRotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 88%, with an average score of 7.2/10, based on 8 reviews.[8]
IGN awardedSuicide Squad: Hell to Pay a score of 7.5 out of 10, saying that while not everything in the film worked, it deserves praise for its "sense of humor, willingness to kill off key characters, and exploration of a spiritual subject".[9] AComicsverse review by Chris Zhang notes problems with graphics, but Zhang still calls it the best Suicide Squad film ever, noting it is giving a correct portrayal of the Squad as "a bunch of backstabbing criminals being managed by a backstabbing bureaucrat" instead of a comparatively friendly team like the2016 film.[10]
The film was nominated for theGolden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Sound Effects, Foley, Music, Dialogue and ADR for Non-Theatrical Animated Long Form Broadcast Media award.[11]
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