Peacemaker review: Give Peace a chance - James Gunn's TV show is DC at its most fun

Geeks of a certain age will well remember the frustrations of the days where a film or TV show would come out in America first and eventually, months later, filter across the Atlantic to be released in the UK.

Thankfully in the age of digital downloads things tend to come out simultaneously more often than not nowadays, but every so often you get something that doesn't work that way.

James Gunn's TV spin-off of The Suicide Squad fits firmly in this category. Airing on HBO Max in the US earlier in the year, UK fans have been waiting patiently to give Peace a chance. And now, finally, they can.

And, in direct opposition to the broody growling of Robert Pattinson's Batman filling up multiplexes up and down the country, it is unapologetically silly and fun with a surprisingly emotionally thoughtful heart.

One of the surprise highlights of last summer's fun cinematic return to The Suicide Squad, Christopher 'Peacemaker' Smith (John Cena) has recovered from the injuries sustained at the end of the movie and has been given a new secret mission by Amanda Waller and the handlers and tech support to help him achieve it.

Former WWE wrestler Cena reprises his role as the antihero who's going to bring peace to the world 'no matter how many men, women and children I have to kill to get it' for this TV outing. Anyone who endured his early outings with WWE movies - notably The Marine, an action film so bombastic that at one point water exploded - will be genuinely surprised at both the depth and humour Cena brings to the role. He's clearly a man who doesn't take himself too seriously and it makes for a glorious performance with some standout moments, mostly involved dancing in various states of undress.

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