Suicide Squad 2016

9/10
YES I AM THEE MARVEL GUY AND YES THIS IS DC
BUT WITH THAT BEEN SAID I LOVE THIS MOVIE, IT'S FRICKIN AWESOME AND MARGOT AS HARLEY IS THE STAR ATTRACTION. I COULD WATCH HER ALL DAY, SHE'S AN ABSOLUTE SCENE STEALER AND SHE IS JUST SO BEAUTIFUL, SO TALENTED AND CARRIES THE HOLE DAMN MOVIE (With ease I
might add). WILL IS JUST WILL AS ALWAYS, SLAPPING EVERY ONE WITH HIS GANSTER QUICK WIT TALK AND EVERY BODY ELSE PLAY THEIR ROLES WELL AND INTERESTINGLY BUT LETS BE HONEST THEY ARE ALL THEIR AS SUPPORTING CHARACTERS FOR HARLEY TO BOUNCE OFF,
WHICH IS NOT A BAD THING BECAUSE SHE IS THE 1 TRUE STAR. FUNNY HOW WB PICKED UP ON THIS FACT AS WELL AND GAVE HER, HER OWN SOLO/TEAM-UP MOVIE AND CAST HER IN
THE SUICIDE SQUAD 2021.
HARLEY QUINN IS DEFINITELY THE MONEY MAKER AND CROUD PULLER, I COULD WATCH HER ON SCREEN FOR 3H STRAIGHT AND NEVER EVER GET BORD OF HER, SOMETHING I CAN NOT SAY ABOUT
THE BATMAN 2022.

SUICIDE SQUAD 2016
IS A HELLA OF A LOT OF FUN AND DOESN'T OVER STAY IT'S WELCOME WHICH I CAN ONLY COUNT ON ONE HAND DC MOVIES THAT DO THAT BECAUSE MOST OF DC IS JUST UTTER DEPRESSING DULL BORING DRAWN-OUT GARBAGE. BUT THE SUICIDE SQUAD 2016 IS DEFINITELY NOT ONE OF THOSE MOVIES AND EVEN THE JOKER IN THIS MOVIE IS COOL AF AND DEFINITELY COMPLEMENTED OUR HARLEY, SPEAKING OF SHE IS A HOLE LOT OF PRETTY IN A HOLE LOT OF CRAZY AND I ABSOLUTELY LOVE HER.

THE QUEEN OF THE DC UNIVERSE HARLEY QUINN

I AM A COMPLETE AND UTTER MARVEL GUY ALWAYS HAVE BEEN AND ALWAYS WILL BE.
AND OUR SIDE BLOWS DC
OUT OF THE UNIVERSE.
BUT CREDIT WHEN CREDIT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED.
THIS MOVIE IS SUPER FREAKING AWESOME AMAZING, FOR DC TO TURN OUT SUCH A FUN, COLOURFUL
ENJOYABLE NON DRAGGED OUT DEPRESSING FILM LIKE THE ALMOST ALWAYS DO WAS A PLEASANT SURPRISE. THIS MOVIE IS THE MOST FUN YOU COULD WISH FOR IN A DC MOVIE. I NEVER FELT THE TIME PASS, I BELLY LAUGHED
ALL WAY THROUGH, LOVED ALL THE FANTASTIC ACTION
HARLEY QUINN STOLE EVERY SCENE, ABSOLUTELY MY FAVOURITE, HER AND
WONDER WOMAN ARE MY 2
FAVOURITE DC CHARACTERS
OF ALL TIME. IT'S JUST
FUN FUN,FUN AND MORE FUN
FROM THE VERY START TO THE VERY END AND I NEVER
EVER WOULD I HAVE THOUGHT THAT I WOULD EVER SAY THAT ABOUT A DC MOVIE,
ESPECIALLY WITH THERE TRACK RECORD, WITH THEM CHURNING ALL THAT DARK DEPRESSING GARBAGE OUT ONE AFTER ANOTHER, RUSHING TRYING TO CATCH UP WITH MARVEL'S MCU
AND FAILING AT EVERY TURN
UNABLE TO CAPTURE THE SAME MAGIC. DC WANT TO LOOK AT WONDER WOMAN
SUICIDE SQUAD,
AQUA MAN
JOKER AND SEE WHERE THERE GETTING IT RIGHT.
10/10

If you ever needed a lesson in not listening to reviewers and making your own mind up about a movie, this is it. The Suicide Squad is brought to life by David Ayer in this summer blockbuster. It is 2+ hours of hard hitting FUN, with incredible portrayals of comic book favourites. Will Smith IS Deadshot, Margot Robbie IS Harley Quinn, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje IS Killer Croc, Jai Courtney IS Captain Boomerang... and The Joker??? I WANTED MORE!!! Well the biggest compliment I can pay to Jared Leto is that I didn't think about Heath Ledger once, it was a completely different yet interesting portrayal.

In this fun action flick, the bad guys are sent to take down a greater evil. Critics of the big bad in this movie seem to have completely missed the point. The big bad in this movie is merely a plot device, to help us get to see our protagonists form as a team. If anything the real villain of the piece is the one who forms this team of misfits. Amanda Waller is portrayed DIABOLICALLY by the incredible Viola Davis and the part where she turns on and guns down her own employees is SHOCKING . Complaining about the villain in a movie where the protagonists are bad guys is akin to complaining about the villain in Deadpool... THAT'S NOT THE POINT OF THE MOVIE!

This movie leaves you with a thirst for more of these characters, and some shots such as when Will Smith is stood on top of a car and gunning down henchman after henchman after henchman look like they have just been ripped out of a comic book and put on screen by the wonderfully talented David Ayer.

If you are a comic book fan, or a DC movies fan, heck even if you are just an average movie watcher... watch this movie! It is SO MUCH FUN!!!

UPDATE: Just seen the Extended Edition and I really enjoyed the new scenes. This extended version doesn't change the nature of the movie in the way the Ultimate Cut did for BvS but I found it let's the movie breathe a little and solves some of the editing problems people complained about. I still love the theatrical release but my recommendation is to watch the extended version of this movie!

The premise on this is pretty clear; bad guys somehow acting or pretend to act badass. I think the main plot was pretty foreseeable thus, though.

I think it was interesting to see the antihero group more heterogeneous than i thought it would be and the group gets into conflict more than I thought it would be, especially with Harley Queen. This revealed more depth than I anticipated, and some traits of the villains surprisingly show the human inside them. (compliments go to Deadshot and the Pyromaniac, Diablo especially)

I think Boomerang was kinda lackluster and lacked personality and uniqueness, and that Monster was even worse; he just felt displaced, replaceable or not important. Slipknot was literally so forgettable I did even miss he existed, or what happened with him. Speaks volumes.

So the conclusion to this part is: Some of the antiheroes sucked or were replaceable, and others were more impressive and unique, and one could even conclude: More effort went into them.

The unknown variable in this, was obviously, the Joker.

I also think the whole rescue mission felt stupid once you found out who ended up being rescued. Like seriously!?

If Superman was out for whatever reason, what the hell did happen to Batman? Edit: Died in another movie something.

I was also pretty foncused behind which parts of the plot Joker was behind and which the..witch, for some time at least. Which seriously led me wonder, if Joker is the problem, why the hell would you ever hire Harley Quinn to handle him!?

And the end boss? Impressive, sure. But the only reason they could beat her was because she was careless far beyond stupid. That move simply was very far from being convincing.

The worst was the music, however, especially the rap songs.

Rating: 8/10

Actually, I just watched it for the first time, but I watched the trailer back in 2016 and actually thought this would be way worse as a movie. Maybe I am just in a pretty positive moment atm?

i don't know what the critics were smoking when they reviewed this, but it's important to always watch a movie yourself and give it the benefit of the doubt before forming your own opinion. admittedly i,m a much bigger Marvel fan than a DC one, but i'm also a comic book fan in general, so i was always going to watch this. i,m happy to say that Suicide Squad has redeemed the disaster that was Batman v Superman and if Wonder Woman and Justice League can keep the ball rolling after this, then the DCCU is looking good.

the movie is fast paced, never stops moving, and the humour and darkness are balanced just right, with neither one being overdone. Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn definitely steals the show as far as i'm concerned, and Will Smith does a good job as Deadshot, despite the fact i never agreed with his casting in the first place. despite what many people thought, Joker is not the main threat in this movie and his role is kept to a minimum, but Jared Leto does make an excellent Joker.

don't make the same mistake i did and leave as soon as the credits start to roll, because you will miss the mid credits scene if you do, and i,m saying no more than that on that subject. this movie gets a solid 10 from me, with Captain America Civil War being the only other movie so far to be ranked that high

Theres a lot wrong with this movie, but there are some good parts that make it enjoyable to sit through. The plot and writing is simply awful, the villian poorly executed, frankly too many people in too little time, so it all seems rushed. And honestly, Joker, I love this joker, but there was too little of him, it seemed like they just threw him in whenever they felt like it, thinking it had no consequence for the plot. But Will Smith, my God this is a role made for him. And Margot makes this worth watching. I love Diablo as well, I wished I could see more sides of him. And the relationship between June and Flag I mean.. come on guys. What was that. And who the hell even is that Waller character, we didnt get no backstory. I just. It was pleasing at times, but sometimes I forgot to enjoy the movie because the script was awful and the villian was just... I dont know if I have more words. This movie is all over the place and nowhere at the same time. If you find faults easily, this might not be for you. But if you can be saved by some good moments and a few good actors, then youll at least enjoy this. Watched it once in the cinema, would not do it again tho. I might want to watch this in the future, but then itll be when the blue ray comes out... and I can download it and not pay lots for something that just is not worth that much.

A few of the worst guys on the planet are given a chance to “redeem” themselves by helping out the American government.

I was really really really looking forward to this movie, and I got a little sad after I read and heard so many bad things about it. But I ignored it and still went to see it, with my excitement and all. And I am glad that I went because it was far from what some of the bad reviews said, and I enjoyed it. I really enjoyed the fighting scenes (although the last one wasn’t my favorite) and some parts were so funny! I truly enjoyed it. I was hoping for perhaps a different kind of storyline because that wasn’t the strongest thing in this movie, luckily the characters are so darn cool because for me, that saved the storyline. I can only imagine how many more DC movies I want after watching Suicide Squad. All these characters have such a history, and I just want to see more of them, and get to know them better. I really enjoyed the cast, they did a great job if you ask me. I only feel a bit disappointed about Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, it just didn’t really work for me, I guess. Jared Leto is a perfect pick for the Joker, but I also didn’t really feel him this movie, it all got a bit too gangster for my likings. But Jared did a great job nonetheless.

Okay, so yea, I enjoyed this movie, and it got me so excited for more DC movies. Is Harley Quinn getting a movie? ‘Cuz she for sure should.

Well it's not as bad as they made out to be, and not as good as they made it out to be, and it's got it's pros, and it has it's cons, but more pros than cons of course. This film had lots of humour, and was full of fast paced action from beginning to finish, and the graphics were a clean sheet, and that's how i like it. I liked the sound tracks in the film, good choice of music, right choices for the right scenes, and it made it for me. The cast were all great for their characters, I was disappointed on the less dialogue, and camera time from some of the squad that i'd of love to see more of, like I always say, I prefer comic over film any day, and also I could see that Will Smiths character got focused on more than the others, i can live with that, and don't get me wrong, dead shot is a good character, and will did great as always. I was really impressed with Margot Robbie's character (Harley quinn) I think she pulled it off massively, and she did have a lot of time on camera so it kinda balanced with dead shots time on camera, so she should, because its her first time on live action, and she's a big character, also she brought the comedy, she fitted in nicely. I didn't like the witch, she just didn't fit in the film, too cheesy in parts for my liking. There's been a lot of hate on the Joker, how he looks, how Jared would play him, comparing him to other jokers, well i thought it he was okay, not great, not rubbish, just okay for me, to be honest i don't think he got enough camera time to show a lot more of himself, scenes were too short, and that's one of the other cons in the film that i was disappointed about. Could it be better? yes it can, Would i recommend it.. of course, but go into with an open mind.. 7/10

i've got this unavoidable compulsion to watch all movies in a shared universe when i want to rewatch a single one, or see ones i missed. while my marvel rewatch is on pause i decided to catch up on all the dceu movies since the wonder woman sequel will be streaming on hbo max. prior to this proper rewatch i'd only seen suicide squad (the movie chosen by one of my old english school's winning class for a christmas tree competition iirc) and recently birds of prey. i wasn't exactly disappointed by suicide squad since i'm not a big dc comics fan in general but i definitely thought it was overhyped at the time and didn't come close to what it could've been. knowing the director's original vision this time around makes me think that this movie is substantially better than it gets credit for in terms of critical reception. i think ayer's vision is easy to imagine if you watch the movie knowing it was never meant to have comedic effect so much as just some darkly comedic lines here and there. the joker and harley would have benefited from the same background treatment that deadshot was given, which i hear the extended cut gave them. my first watch of suicide squad left me wanting none of the joker but the second watch with context and less of the immediate hype surrounding it back when it came out makes jared leto's interpretation a lot more palatable.

let's be real though viola davis is the greatest villain of all time OF ALL TIME. and i was glad to read that idris elba's being given the role of bloodsport in the upcoming soft reboot, as will smith's deadshot is absolutely my favorite of the bunch in this rewatch and i would watch a reprisal of his any day.

Literally the greatest film I have ever seen. Marvel can just go the fuck home. They've got nothing on this academy award winning masterpiece. 'Batman v Superman' is going to end up in a hospital after witnessing this absolute blessing onto the world, not like my ex-wife who I thought was a blessing to me...

I thought 'Jaws' and 'King Kong' were my favorite movies of all time, but pfffff, bruh. This is the real classic. Those other two are fucking trash in comparison.

I can't even tell what I was watching, I remember hearing dialogue and a lot of pop songs, but fuck you. I remember listening to 'Paranoid' as I argued with my ex-wife. This movie is funny because I said so. Jared Leto as the joker was a brilliant choice. Who was that fucker, Heath Ledger? No one cares about him, Jared is the REAL choice pick for the joker. All 5 minutes of his screentime made me orgasm, his Hot Topic portrayal would totally appeal to mainstream critics.

Actually, all the characters would appeal to critics. Will Smith totally sells this movie and Jai Courtney is the greatest actor of all time. I used to love Marlon Brando and Robert Shaw, but those two fuckwads don't stand a chance in an audition against Jai Courtney. I loved it when Courtney terribly read dialogue off a prompter with no emotion. Best Actor Award winner right here, folks! I bet my ex-wife would win Best Actress.

I love how cringeworthy every line of dialogue is. This is supposed to be a group of funny characters in the style of 'Guardians of the Galaxy' but this movie actually works. Not like my ex-wife. Batman makes a small appearance here and there, which makes me can't wait to shill hard for the new Batman solo production. I can't wait to see the high score on Rottentomatoes for it. I heard Ben Affleck had to go to rehabilitation for alcohol addiction. Why go to rehab for alcohol addiction? I love beer and I don't have an addiction...

The rest of the characters I don't even know they're names, but they all said some funny dialogue, so that makes them well-developed and likable characters. Harley Quin was super hot, I loved the way her body looked in that outfit, like how my ex-wife's body looks in the bathtub. Crocodile head made me laugh a lot and Boomerang, AKA Jai Courtney, has the most useful super power on the planet. I never realized all you needed to be a super hero was having a boomerang as a weapon.

A true cinematic masterpiece. 'Casablanca' and 'Star Wars' have nothing on this true work of modern art. I wish I could talk more about, but the cops just showed up to the front door, so I gotta go. See y'all later!

Happy April Fools' Day!

Just got back from seeing this. Here is what I'll say right off the bat: It's not nearly as bad as I anticipated based on the reviews going in. If the entire film was exactly like the first 30 minutes, I would LOVE this movie. Sure it would have been 2 hours of set up, but how much fun was that first 30 minutes?!

THE GOOD
Harley Quinn. Robbie lives up to the hype on this. Seeing the ads I wasn't head over heels. I just wasn't seeing the charm of it in short bursts. But seeing the movie totally reminds me of watching the animated series, which I haven't revisited in awhile. Makes me want to go back. She was the best part of this movie.

Will Smith. I imagine fans of Deadshot will have plenty to say about what he got wrong about the character. I didn't know Deadshot existed until this movie. I'm not a huge comic book guy anymore, so I was going in blind on this. I loved him. I thought he was great. Still not 100% the Will Smith I want to see up there, having a blast, but this was pretty damn close.

The music. They went the Guardians route with the soundtrack and it works. I'm a sucker for a recognizable old jam in a movie and there are plenty in this.

Ike Barinholtz. Big fan of this guy and he's friggin' hysterical here. He was a big part of that first 30 that I loved so much. Seeing him interact with Harley, etc, was great.

THE BAD
Everything after the 30 minutes of "We're putting together a team." Once they're assembled and the completely ridiculous plot begins, and the long stretches of boring make you even more aware of how many leaps you have to take to believe the plot, the more checked out I became. I know you have to allow some suspension of disbelief in these kinds of movies, but this one asked a lot.

Insanely subpar CG. What the hell was going on with the look of the villain? These were Mummy-level "The Rock's face pinned to a blurry CG body" effects. Just baffling.

The end was the same as every single one of these movies, whether they're good or bad, it's just a group of characters who have to use their skills to battle a CG monster, each of them fail until for some reason the last big thing they do works. Whatever. Also the end look of how the power was shooting out of the building looked very Ghostbusters (any of them really).

The Joker. Look. His Joker was just fine. I liked his look, he was even being kind of crazy sometimes. But for the amount of screen time he actually gets DOES NOT equal the amount of articles I had to see about this dude pranking people on set and being disgusting and sending gross gifts to Viola Davis blah blah blah. Seriously, the PR train on this has been going strong for what feels like a year and a half and it all amounts to....15 minutes, all together? Sure sure this will set him up for other stuff but come on. So many articles about him being in character and pranking. So many. The other actors had to hate it. Especially considering the fact that they BARELY share the screen with him! It'd be like Jeremy Irons pranking the shit out every single cast member in BvS "for his character." Lawrence Fishburn would not stand for that shit.

Anyway, I didn't completely hate it. I had fun sometimes. I laughed at things they didn't want me to laugh at sometimes (so did the rest of the theater). But it wasn't the worst.

I really want to love this movie, but it's really a jumbled mess with little to no plot at all.

I mean, it's obvious that it follows the ordinary formula: there's a world-threatening supervillain and we're gonna take them down. But the line connecting the scenes to make a whole coherent story does not seem to exist at all. Even the characters don't seem to realize that they're facing a bigger threat--though they seem to resolve it quickly.

The movie reeks with flashbacks, and a lot of them don't really serve any real purpose aside from showing the character's past. There are several scenes which intents to make the audience relate to the character, but it's depicted so abruptly that it doesn't seem to matter. Also there are a lot of subplots that don't tie the story at all and can be conveniently removed, i.e. the Joker (Jared Leto) and Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) subplots. Seriously, it's really distracting to the point of disturbing the movie flow.

Deadshot (Will Smith) and Harley Quinn takes most of the screen time, which is okay-ish actually, but some scenes just don't give much useful narrative to the audience. Like both characters' introduction and the way they ended up in prison, it actually makes them look pretty dumb (how come they got caught that easily?). A number of scenes just come out of nowhere, like the scenes where they're drinking in the bar.

The jokes here actually fits well, however. It's not distracting to the point of annoying like Avengers (both movies).

As for the characters, aside from Katana (Karen Fukuhara) who keeps on blabbering in Japanese (which no one understands), the character designs are actually unique. I like the gangster-ish touch to Joker and Harley, and the rascal dipshit look of Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney). The acting is also great, mostly. However they're not memorable characters: just flashy costumes with shallow depth.

Seriously, this movie unfortunately does not live up to the hype. Especially when I'm really wishing this can make DC Universe stands strong..

Suicide Squad director David Ayer and the folks behind the DCEU achieved something I didn't think was possible -- they made a 90s blockbuster in 2016. Perhaps with the reemergence of late sequels like Jurassic World and Independence Day: Resurgence, I shouldn't have been surprised, but nevertheless, the refurbished day-glo vibe of the third entry in D.C. Comics' nascent cinematic universe caught me off guard. I anticipated a copycat production that aimed to match Guardians of the Galaxy's quippy "bad guys gone good" atmosphere, but I didn't imagine it would be filtered through a lens from twenty years in the past.

All the elements of the Clinton-era blockbuster are there though. Will Smith gives the standard Will Smith performance, one that could have easily been transplanted from Men In Black or, heaven help us, Wild Wild West. There are dry cool action movie lines aplenty. And there's a cartoony, almost surreal vibe to the entire film, that makes Suicide Squad seem divorced from the attempts at realism embraced in Batman Begins and closer to the cornucopia of neon camp in Batman Forever.

That doesn't make Suicide Squad a good film. To the contrary, the movie has severe editing and pacing problems; its characters are laughably thin, and its internal logic waxes and wanes from scene to scene. Like its predecessor, Batman v. Superman, the film is a mess, but it's at least a much more interesting mess. For whatever the mishmashed psuedo-philosophical appeal of Zach Snyder's prior Superman flicks held, the films have a certain antiseptic quality to them, a sense that this is all taking place in a gray scale, emotionally detached world. Suicide Squad is full of color, literally and figuratively. It's profoundly weird; it bounces between tones, characters, and stories with schizophrenic abandon, and it doesn't exactly work, but by god, at least the thing has an identity.

Unfortunately, it's an identity that finds its closest companion in Poochie, the x-tremely cool new dog soulless studio executives shoehorned into The Simpsons's show within a show, Itchy & Scratchy in a abortive attempt to make it appeal once more to the kids of today. Suicide Squad feels cooked up to much the same end, with a creeping sense that the executive at Warner Bros. tried to put Captain Planet and the collective inventory of Hot Topic in a blender and came up with this transparent attempt to be as hip and edgy as possible. The result is a film that makes the cardinal sin of coolness -- it's painfully trying to hard at it, in a tin-eared fashion.

That effort at tone does at least distinguish Suicide Squad from its fellow superhero flick brethren. That's not enough, however, for it to escape the pitfalls of poor pacing, structure, and characterization, that doom the effort from the start. The film moves like an old car, revving up and seemingly about to shift into second gear, before stalling out halfway through the trip and having to be resuscitated yet again every half an hour or so. The flm opens with nearly a half hour of a straight up, exposition-filled introduction to the characters, which in keeping with the powerpoint presentation Wonder Woman watched in BvS, seems to suggest that the DCEU is wholly incapable of bringing new characters into the fold organically, but rather has to spend precious, momentum-killing minutes out-and-out describing who these people are and what they're like in the world's capiest Miss America pageant.

The pacing and structure doesn't improve from there. Our heroes (or rather villains, a point with which Suicide Squad beats the audience over the head with a spray-painted 2x4), are then suddenly thrown into a life and death assault on major metropolitan skyscraper with supernatural crud swirling around it. From there, the movie vacillates between choppy, empty action scenes punctuated with brief moments of downtime featuring insipid attempts to add to our understanding of these characters, with a tacked on Joker caper taking place in parallel, which never feels of a piece with the rest of the story. The movie has a herky-jerky quality to it, never quite becoming a unified whole so much as a series of vaguely related scenes that feel more episodic than propulsive.

That might be excusable if those breaks in the action were better used or populated with characters who felt like real, albeit exaggerated people instead of stick figures with various cliches and stereotypes attached to them. Again, Will Smith plays every Will Smith character you've ever seen in a big budget Will Smith movie. Gone is the actor who transformed himself for Ali or found the humanity even in reheated schmaltz like The Pursuit of Happyness, and back is the actor's now tired, smart-aleky shtick, replete with a generic tragic backstory, sad-eyed moppet, and for inexplicable reasons, the wardrobe of Shaft. By contrast, Viola Davis offers one of the film's few bright spots character-wise. Her take on tough-as-nails Amanda Waller can only go so far in rising above the material, but she forcefully conveys Waller's harsh pragmatism and steel in a way that make me hope she gets to reprise the role in a better film.

Nearly everyone else in the picture is a one-line stock character or worse, a mildly offensive stereotype, each of whom barely gets enough character development to justify their existence as anything but set-dressing. The remainder of the ensemble is reduced to a broad type: generic military guy, cliched stoic Asian sword-wielder, stereotypical black guy who demands access to BET. And that doesn't even include Captain Cannon Fodder, who gets a perfunctory, one-line introduction late in the film and dies ten minutes later. Even El Diablo, one of the film's few attempts to give one of the members of the titular Suicide Squad other than Deadshot and Harley Quinn some real personality, is a cringe-worthy Mexican stereotype who gets a "too little, too late" tragic monologue in the last third of the film. Not only do these characters get too little time in the film for the audience to actually get to know them or care about their fates, but Suicide Squad worsens the situation by effectively declaring them a family without having earned that distinction, leaving them as a group of thinly-drawn baddies who suddenly love and are willing to die for one another simply because the film says so.

That doesn't even take into account Suicide Squad's bizarre villain, Enchantress, whose superpower is apparently smoke cloud-adjacent sexy dancing. She's an odd choice for an antagonist in terms of tone, and her attempt to take on the protagonists in hand-to-hand combat despite her magical abilities, drips with the narrative and financial necessity of a third-act fight sequence. When she's not attacking Waller's impressed mercenaries in flavorless battles via her version of the Putty Patrol, she's barking banalities in a faux-forgotten tongue amid the usual CGI tumult. to rapidly diminishing returns.

The only two characters to truly stand out (give or take Waller) are the two that gave fans the most reason for concern going into the film. Harley Quinn is the biggest victim of the Poochie-esque characterization that plagues Suicide Squad, but Margot Robbie commits to the performance and breathes life into the character, bringing an extraverted, but pathos-laden spark to Quinn, as Paul Dini's original creation from Batman: The Animated Series is made flesh. The character is saddled with ridiculous dialogue, an opaque, wonky backstory, and the brazenly sexist way in which she's framed within the film (the Community line, "What is your name, Exploitia?" comes to mind), but Robbie makes the best of it, imbuing the character with the fractured wit and wackiness that have made Harley the best addition to Batman's rogues gallery in decades.

At the same time, I didn't necessarily love Jared Leto's Joker, but I was at least intrigued by him. The DCEU, almost by necessity, needed to go in a new direction with the character to step out of the long shadow cast by Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight. Leto's Joker, true to the unexpected throwback vibe of the film, is half-Jim Carrey's Riddler and half-Tim Curry's Dr. Frank-N-Furter. We only get the occasional intrusion from him here, but it's enough to pique the viewer's interest without letting the necessarily outsized character wear out his welcome. The take is not without its flaws. Joker's laugh doesn't really work (it's a little too Penguin-esque), and the hints of the shared history between him and Harley we get are muddled at best and off-putting at worst, but there's a distinct, outlandish, even sexual vibe to the character that immediately distinguishes the Clown Prince of Crime as something legitimately different in a film trying with all its might to be trendily off-beat and quirky.

And yet for all those strained attempts to be in-your-face and totally eXtreme, for all the reams of terrible dialogue destined to be laughed at instead of laughed with, and for all the hastily thrown together pop songs that start out fun but quickly feel gimmicky and forced, there's one superlative sequence that shows what Suicide Squad might have been. Late in the film, the antagonist uses her mystical swaying powers to give the subset of the characters that matter a glimpse of what they truly want in this world. These scenes embrace the true tragedy of the movie's protagonists, and touch on the worthy idea at this film's core which ends up so poorly realized during the rest of this film's run time -- that this is a group of broken people struggling for what they want but know they can't have, united in their pain and buoyed by the chance to commiserate and achieve something together.

That germ of emotional and narrative stakes is lost in the onslaught of the stop-and-start storytelling, the botched attempts to make the films characters as memorable as they are meme-able, and the numerous narrative shortcuts the film takes, but at least it's there. Suicide Squad is a peculiar translation of the excesses and eccentricities of 90s superhero filmmaking realized in odd detail two decades hence. For better or worse, there's a Schumacher-esque flair to the film, a sense of unrestrained but also unrefined colorfulness that permeates the picture. But for this film out of time, that bears its heart-on-its-sleeve weirdness proudly, the weirdness is only bleached skin-deep.

I feel like this movie could have had potential. There were good characters that could have made a good movie, but nope; it just wasn't done right.

It starts with far too much telling and not enough showing. Practically everyone's backstory is just briefly explained one right after the other by another character, and there are enough characters that it becomes really drawn out. I started losing interest and wondering when they'd get to actually starting the plot.

Overall, most of the actors were actually pretty good, but all their characters managed to mostly fall flat anyway. They just weren't given enough depth and there was probably too little time even in a lengthy film to properly give them all what they needed to succeed. I didn't care that much about the characters. It registered that I was supposed to, but it just wasn't hitting me like it should have. There were definitely interesting ones, but my interest in them didn't grow as the film progressed.

Will Smith was just Will Smith. I didn't feel like he fell into the role in a way that made him seem like Deadshot; there was no character immersion there. I immediately could see why people felt the Joker was the worst Joker there's been; even though I admittedly haven't seen Heath Ledger play him yet. However, I did see Joaquin Phoenix play him and he was fantastic. That said, I didn't think Jared Leto was a completely awful Joker. I think I could have appreciated him in a film that was all about his and Harley's relationship as it began and progressed far more.

This movie felt like a bunch of random scene ideas thrown together with little thought to how they connected; so the flow of this movie and the pacing were so off. It felt like I was unsure how I was getting from one scene to the next far too often. Even as the team of characters eventually begin to work together it felt too forced and like they never actually did so because of some chain of events that brought them closer and made them care about one another. The music choices were quite interesting at times; they were often quite peppy and upbeat for the material.

I think it would have made sense to indicate a reason the bad guys were being brought out to fight other bad guys; such as the good guys being busy with some other catastrophe. I think too many movie genres were attempted to be shoved into one. It was a weird mix of superhero/villain, sci-fi, horror, comedy, romance, and action. It did have its moments, but they were few and I can't actually recall any specifics; and I'm writing this just the day after watching it. If I could only give one word for this film it would be; tedious.

Hey DC, are you trying to f**k this up on purpose? Seriously! What the hell is going on over there. "Suicide Squad" was your chance to redeem yourself from the last critical failures. This movie should have been the one that saved DC and get it back on it's feet, but I guess not. I wanted this to be good or at least surprise me. There are some pros and plenty of cons in this. So lets kick it off.

Will Smith and Viola Davis are easily the best parts of this movie. Smith brings the humanity to his character and Davis brings the fear. Will Smith is the only character in this group that has any characterization as we get to know more about his past. Will Smith is basically playing Will Smith, but he was still good as the character. To be honest, I thought Voila Davis was more of a real threat then the actual threat itself.

Margot Robbie was pretty good as Harley Quinn, but wasn't the show stealer as I thought she would be. She did a great job capturing the character and there was little peaks of humility as well. Her accent dose keep changing in a few scenes, but I can easily look pass that.

I was one of those people who was against Jared Leto new look as the Joker. I know he's trying a different take on the character, but with all the stupid tattoo's all over him with the word 'damaged' on his forehead and the gangster grill teeth just wasn't the Joker. But I give Leto this, it's a bold move to take on the character after Ledger's unforgettable performance. I was being a bit too harsh at the time and Leto is a very method actor, so what's there's nothing to complain with the casting (besides the new look). After seeing the movie, Leto doesn't do a bad job as the Joker. He doesn't have that much screen time and every time he's on it screen, he kinda chews up the scenery. He was enjoyable to watch and I will make a full judgment when we have a movie where he has more screen time. Coming to think of it, The Joker should have been the main villain of the movie and not Enchantress (I'll get to her in a minute). Oh and I can't be the only one who thinks he looks like some manic you'll see in a Purge movie.

Cara Delevingne not only gives the worst performance in the movie, but also the most laughable one as well. I mean, what is up with that hip moves and twirling her arms around? It's like the director gave up. Enchantress is right up there with Dr. Doom from "Fant4stic" as the worst villain in comic book movie. Enchantress is the basic villain who wants to shoot a giant blue lazier in the sky to destroy the world. Oh and please stop it with the blue lazier thing, it's in every comic book movie now and it's so stupid.

Here's my question: Why would you sent these crazy and dangerous people on a mission to stop Enchantress. Yeah I really hope that doesn't back fire at all. I mean sure, send a guy who calls himself Captain Boomerang who's an insane person that throws boomerangs that never comes back to him to save us from giant portals from other worlds. Is it because they are expendable? It would have made a lot more sense if Wonder Women or The Flash or just anyone with god like powers to go on this mission. This really is a suicide mission.

The rest of the Squad members were pretty forgettable and just didn't do anything. Katana was just kinda there. Slipknot is in it for a few minutes. Killer Croc just stands around going "mmmm" or "yeah", they didn't do anything with that character.

The third act was this gigantic action scene that takes place in the city and the scene itself was just a mess. It was so muddled together and the editing was so poor that it sadly did remind me of "Fant4stic" climax.

Some of the music choices didn't really fit well during a couple of scenes. It felt out of place and was only thrown at the last minute to make it a little light at heart. This is because of the heavy criticism for "Batman V Superman" for being too dark.

I think DC biggest problem is that they are literally rushing the movies out just to catch up with Marvel. Take your time DC. But of course, many will be angry that I said that and will go to terrifying lengths to defend it. Fan boys seem to choose to deny any flaws from these movies and praise it for it's non-existing efforts. I'm not a DC hater. I'm not a Marvel fan boy. I only want a freaking good movie, is that hard to ask for. Just because it tried something new doesn't always mean it will bring great results. Everyone has an opinion, that's a no-brainier. Agree or disagree, just please don't act like a cry baby when some has a different opinion to you.

Overall rating: "Suicide Squad" was a huge disappointment in a lackluster year for summer movies. The more I think about this, the more I hate it.