More questions than answers, don't take this too seriously

Rating: Null/10 (5 August 2016)

I'm not a comic book reader so I knew nothing about the Suicide Squad before this movie. This is nowhere as polished as existing Marvel films but it has some of its highlights (though a lot of it already got highlighted in the trailer).
The movie started off messy and fragmented. Character introductions were bias with most screen time spent on Will Smith's character Deadshot and Margot Robbie's character Harley Quinn. And then they just quickly glimpsed over Boomerang, El Diablo, Killer Croc. Katana showed up from nowhere, and Slipknot disappeared as quickly as he appeared. You can say Suicide Squad is a pretty unmemorable squad featuring only two stars, Deadshot and Harley Quinn. Despite the movie's effort in putting more explanation into Deadshot and Harley Quinn's backstories...I feel I still don't really understand who Harley Quinn really is. And Cara Delevingne's character Enchantress. Who is she really? What's her true motivation? Nothing is developed with that character. Cara is fitting for the emotionless scary bad witch role, but her mean eyebrows ruined her distressed girl act as Dr. June Moone.
And then there's the plot. The way they set up the plot in the beginning was incomplete due to poor transitions and explanations. The idea of Waller getting the approval to assemble the Squad by showing off Enchantress' magical powers seemed so stupid...it looked like the screenwriters took an easy way out to move along the plot. How the "villains" got defeated in the end seemed really stupid too. The movie is basically saying that all-powerful 4000 years old magical beings (Enchantress and Incubus) were defeated by a bomb and a heart that was easily stolen. There was so much more potential to these characters than what was shown.
The movie found more coherence once the Squad found its purpose with the rescue mission and wasn't interrupted by random backstory interjections. But the questionable plot left me with still more questions than answers: How come Waller just popped up again with no scratches or battle scars? What happened to the little army of mutants created by the witch before their final scene of defeat? What is Diablo??! Is he non-human because I was pretty surprised when he just suddenly turned into a giant and fire monster. Where was his backstory? The lack of explanation or character development made it really hard for me to care about them when they die.
Now some positives that stuck with me: - There were some amazing performances by Leto as Joker, Robbie as Harley Quinn, and Smith as Deadshot. Harlely Quinn had some good action sequences - The humour was pretty good. (Inconsistent but still good). - Sick soundtrack
Verdict: Still a no brainer fun action movie to watch if you don't hold yourselves too seriously over its flaws.