'Peacemaker' takes aim at a broad, stationary target — with machine guns
A game John Cena takes the lumbering, emotionally stunted mercenary he played in The Suicide Squad to the small screen. The cast lunges at every repetitive joke, but fans of the movie will eat it up.
There are a lot of jokes in the new HBO Max series Peacemaker, a spinoff of last year's The Suicide Squad. Let's say that much for it.
The problem — and it turns out to be a big, insurmountable one — is that they all take precisely the same form:
CHARACTER A: [Says something.]
CHARACTER B: Wait ... ? [Repeats what Character A just said.]?
