Had So Much Potential...

Rating: 5/10 (12 April 2016)

As someone who really loves Superman, I'm really disappointed with this film. It's a visual feast, to be sure, but it doesn't deliver on what it promises. It promises to discuss philosophical and heady things, but also forgets to actually deliver the necessary weight to those moments. Too much of this film is devoted to tying into the rest of the DC Cinematic Universe that it feels as though it's fit to burst. There are a few scenes that do exactly this and stop the forward momentum of the film dead in its tracks.
In Avengers Age of Ultron, there was a similar problem. The side-stories distracted from the main plot thread and everything felt overstuffed, as though Marvel was using its Avenger movie as a "hub" so that the next phase of films can be set up or at least hinted at. Here we have that problem, but at a greater magnitude.
I didn't want to hate this movie, but this film was an overstuffed affair that tried to do so much that it failed at everything that it was trying to do. I wanted to feel like I saw something great, but I just left the theater disappointed. I can only hope Suicide Squad delivers a more focused story rather than one that is too busy doing too many different things. I don't mind a morally complicated superhero movie. I just want a focused story that doesn't shove in so many elements that we can't care about our characters.