Uuuuuggghhhh

Rating: 1/10 (13 August 2016)

Suicide Squad boasts an evil minion army whose design is nifty. That's basically where the positives end. This bludgeoning anti-movie is a shockingly incompetent piece of film in the most basic senses (editing, casting, character building, coherency), who's complete disregard for storytelling in favor of barely-stylish messiness makes it play like a 2+ hour trailer. A garbage pile of frightful colors, unpleasant sexism, angry violence and desperately unfunny humor, Suicide Squad is the perfect embodiment of the axiom that there is nothing less cool than desperately trying to be cool. In case I'm not being clear enough, Suicide Squad is bad. Like, really bad. Like, Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern bad, only much worse. The writing and editing are unbelievably inept, with simple concepts like character motivation and story logic nowhere near the proceedings. Harley Quinn, the deranged love interest of an Insane Clown Posse reject (aka The Joker), and Deadshot, a constantly flip-flopping moralist who never follows any sort of personal rules, lead a team of big-dumb-villains to stop (yet another) big blue beam of light from destroying Earth. They are all evil (unless they aren't becausereasons), until ham-fisted and half-hearted moralizing hits them in a multitude of unearned fashions. Snyder and the whole team at DC / Warner Bros. headquarters really need to be stopped. Where Marvel seems to care about their fans, DC seems to almost disdain theirs with their sloppy excuses for movies. Any hope that director Ayer (Fury) would breathe some fresh style into this universe is gone, with Snyder clearly still driving the bus with his hodge-podge of uselessly indulgent visuals. Here's hoping Affleck can right this mind-numbing superhero series.