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Suicide Squad NY premiere jitters
The cast of the Suicide Squad, including Will Smith, Margot Robbie and Jared Leto reunite at the film's New York premiere.
Scathing reviews for the new comic book anti-hero movie Suicide Squad are driving fans to desperate measures.
More than 16,000 people have signed an online petition on Change.org calling for review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes to be shut down in protest at the harsh reception.
Suicide Squad, released in Australia on Thursday, follows a rogue group of DC Comics anti-heroes - Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Boomerang, Killer Croc and El Diablo - who are captured and held hostage by Gotham's government to use as weapons to protect the city.
Many critics have panned the film, with Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair calling it "too shoddy and forgettable to even register as revolting." Robbie Collin of London newspaper The Daily Telegraph wrote: "The film makes you cringe so hard your teeth come loose."
Fairfax's Jake Wilson called it "inconsistent, cluttered and poorly paced".
The reviews have led to a poor rating of 34pc on Rotten Tomatoes for the Warner Bros. movie.
Abdullah Saleh, a 22-year-old university student in Alexandria, Egypt, launched the petition on Tuesday telling Reuters he felt "there is some kind of pattern for movie critics to give DC Extended Universe movies bad reviews".
He acknowledged his efforts would not shut down Rotten Tomatoes, but said he wanted to show movie critics "that there are a lot of people who disagree with their reviews".
"I created the petition just to gather DC Fans and express their anger just for fun. I didn't mean it to be taken that serious. I just want it to be a symbolic petition," Saleh told Reuters.
"I didn't imagine it will go that far," Saleh said of the response from fans.
Despite the reviews, the film is expected to gross $125 million in North America alone when it opens this weekend, according to box office analysts.