Flawed, but not terrible

Rating: 6/10 (6 August 2016)

Going into this movie, I had very low expectations. I had seen early reviews, and they weren't pretty. What I got from the movie was something I wasn't expecting. It wasn't a masterpiece by any stretch of the word, but the low scores it's receiving aren't warranted either. There are certainly problems with the movie, the pacing was weird, the editing was the worst aspect of the movie and made it hard to follow, at times. And as far as characters go, I found the joker the most annoying part. Character development could have been a tad bit better as well, you only got the back story on a couple of the characters. And some of the characters felt like your prototypical throw away villains. The story wasn't an overly complicated one, but it was enough to keep me intrigued. There were a few twists, but nothing an average movie goer wouldn't have foreseen.
I think the most disappointing thing, for me, is that this title had so much potential, and DC kind of dropped the ball by making an average movie.
All in all, even with these problems it wasn't a bad movie. 5 to 6 out of 10 seems appropriate.