"Don't forget, we're the bad guys."

Rating: 7/10 (21 May 2017)

I held off watching this flick for the primary reason that I thought it would be more like "Deadpool", with liberal use of the 'F' word and an unhealthy balance of sex and violence for a comic book based movie. So the good surprise here is that the DC folks didn't further lower the bar on entertainment value by going for the cheap and nasty.
On the flip side though, the story falls victim to that ever present need to fill the screen with the most over the top action sequences the film makers can to rid the world of the latest all powerful villain menace bent on dominating the planet. It gets so repetitious after a while that it almost legislates against seeing the next picture to come out because you know it will just be more of the same.
Taken individually, I did get a kick out of the principal players. Margot Robbie's take on Harley Quinn and Jared Leto's portrayal of The Joker were about the best one could expect of actors who have mentally challenged characters to portray. It's interesting to contrast Leto's Joker with Heath Ledger's in "The Dark Knight". Ledger's was more of an extremist, almost a terrorist one might say, whereas Leto came at the character as someone who was deranged. I didn't think anyone could top Ledger's performance as The Joker at the time, but Leto's performance now gives me pause.
As for the rest, the remaining meta-humans to join the Squad were OK, but there wasn't much time to focus on their characters with Deadshot (Will Smith) and Harley Quinn doing most of the heavy lifting. As for squad leader Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman), he seemed almost superfluous except for his connection to June Moone/The Enchantress (Cara Deleningne). The ease with which Harley managed to fake out Enchantress and steal her heart seemed like a total let down with global domination at stake. Same thing with Incubus, a potential bad guy with the power of a Superman, yet he got dusted by a fiery opponent and blown up. Doesn't say much for world threatening super-villains.
Well it's a been there, done that viewing for me and I'd like to be a bit more positive about the picture but it was just something to get out of the way. The after credit scene didn't much inspire to see the follow up sequel, if in fact there is one. Judging by the amount of negative reviews on this board, there might be reason to reconsider.