Your average viewer

Rating: 7/10 (7 August 2016)

Overall I found this movie to be pretty good. Despite reviews from critics and fanboys who are expecting movies to be exactly like their dusty old comic books and totally demolishing this movie, I actually found it to be alright. Knowing nothing about the suicide squad going in and being somewhat disappointed by the last few DC movies (especially in the case of Batman vs. Superman) I overall thought the movie did a decent job of introducing dynamic characters. I thought Will Smith's character "Deadshot" was very well played as well as Margot Robbie's "Harley Quinn". On the flip side there was some very poor, forced, almost unbearable acting moments such as the character "Killer Croc" being almost like another dumb "The Thing" from the fantastic four. What I think was the worst miss of this movie was the main antagonist, this cheesy villain was a very poor choice for this movie as well as some of the CGI that was needed for it. I think in a different setting with a different villain this movie does a lot better.
As your average super hero movie viewing critic who's going into the theater expecting such, I would say overall despite some misses I found this movie to be pretty enjoyable and would definitely not let some overly critical fanboys deter you from seeing this movie.