Rotten Tomatoes has become the scapegoat for fans’ frustrations

Suicide Squad gets its theatrical release tomorrow, but unless you’ve managed to avoid the internet over the last few days, you’ll have probably noticed that early critic reviews have been less than glowing.

Cara Delevingne, who plays Enchantress, responded to the negativity at the European premiere and described the critics as “absolutely horrific”. After thinking. I found this petition pointless. Now that the movie is out, it’s time for the fans to weigh in.

Suicide Squad, out in cinemas tomorrow, follows a rogue group of anti-heroes with special powers – Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Boomerang, Killer Croc and El Diablo – who are held hostage by Gotham’s government to use as weapons to protect the city.

Huffington Post reported that according to critic Richard Lawson, he called “Suicide Squad” as “too shoddy and forgettable to even register as revolting”. As negative reviews begin rolling in for the film, fans have started to sign a peition that asks for review site Rotten Tomatoes to be shut down.

The David Ayer directed film, starring Margot Robbie and Will Smith, was panned by critics and given a lowly 30 per cent rating by the website which aggregates what other people have said about the film. For the three times that DC Extended Universe released movies since 2013, it has gotten disgusting reviews from the critics of Rotten Tomatoes.

Ayer defended the movie, quoting Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata’s famous line translated as “I’d rather die standing than live on my knees”.

Created by Abdullah Coldwater of Alexandria, Egypt, the petition which has obtained over 17,000 signatures, asks for popular review collection site Rotten Tomatoes to be shut down. I didn’t mean it to be taken that serious.

He later suspended the petition, saying “the only thing that it does is spreading a speech of hate and online fighting”.

Somewhat ironically, as noted by Entertainment Weekly, the company behind the movies set in the DC universe – Warner Bros – owned Rotten Tomatoes up until February of this year, when it was sold to Fandango.

Those people are expected to make the film a box office hit despite the critical mauling.