Somewhat entertaining

Rating: 7/10 (12 November 2016)

With more metahumans coming out of the woodwork, the U.S. government creates a secret, task force made up of metahumans to fight other metahumans who do not have the world's best interests at heart. Viola Davis, playing a top government agent who creates this metahuman squad, unwisely chooses villains to fill out the group. Yes, at first this seems like a ludicrous ideaafter all, how can you trust these villains to do your bidding? And the character of Harley Quinn, played by Margot Robbiehow can this psychopath be expected to follow orders, even under the threat of having her head blown off by implanted, miniature explosives? The idea of this "Suicide Squad" is so far-fetched, how can the audience blindly accept it and sit back and have fun with the movie? Welllet me tell you
The U.S. putting madmen and psychos under payroll and setting them up to acquire a tremendous amount of power is very real, and very common. Manuel Noriega, Ferdinand Marcos, Osama Bin-Laden, and Saddam Hussein are a few examples. Soooothe idea of the U.S. government hiring maniacs to fight other maniacs isn't that far-fetched after all.
Soon after Davis sets up her squad under threats and/or promises of freedom and extra goodies, a metahuman threat arises. Ironically, it is a threat that is borne from a squad member! Will Smith (playing Deadshot) leads the "Suicide Squad" into the fight, and as expected, things do not go smoothly. How can it? The squad has never fought as a group before; one is psychotic; another made a promise to himself to not use his powers anymore; two of them just want to escape; and the squad wasn't given the full story of who they are fighting and how this threat came to be. Working together and defeating a powerful enemy will take a miracle, and they need that miracle to happen fast because the entire world is about to end.
My most memorable, movie moment of "Suicide Squad" is the scene when Robbie finally puts on her outfit. 'Nuff said.
"Suicide Squad" is a reasonably entertaining, somewhat mindless action flick that has two memorable characters: Deadshot and Harley Quinn. While Robbie killed it as Quinn, Smith seemed miscast for his role as Deadshot. Add to this a script that needed more polish and focus, and what could have been a great movie is reduced to one that is just okay.
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