Suicide Squad A Little Shorter Than Batman v Superman?

Suicide Squad won’t be quite as long as other huge comic films this year

2016 has been the year of fairly lengthy superhero epics. With the exception of Deadpool, which ran a fairly tight hour and forty-eight minutes, Batman v Superman, Captain America: Civil War and X-Men Apocalypse all ran around the two-and a half hour mark. It seems as budgets and casts are ballooning, superhero movies are arguably getting longer as well.

Suicide Squad might be bucking that trend at least a little bit. Though it features a fairly large cast, most of which aren’t necessarily known to more casual audiences (c’mon no one heard of Slipknot, El Diablo, Enchantress or Rick Flag before this movie and even Katana might be a stretch), it will reportedly be a little shorter than most of the big comic book movie epics we have seen this year so far.

According to Collider, Suicide Squad will be 130 minutes long. That’s two hours and ten minutes, which is about 20 minutes shorter. And I’m pretty sure at least two of the three films I mentioned being longer earlier would’ve greatly benefited from having about 20 more minutes cut from them.

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Of course, whether or not a movie feels overly long or for that matter way too short often has little to do with the actual runtime of the movie. Good pacing and editing can make a lengthy film feel incredibly brisk, while the opposite can make even short films feel like they go on forever and ever. Regardless of length, will David Ayer be able to make Suicide Squad feel like a lengthy but no too lengthy anti-superhero movie that lets us get to know all the characters involved? We’ll find out when Suicide Squad hits theaters August 5th.