These are not the bad guys!

Rating: Null/10 (6 August 2016)

I was pretty excited to see Suicide Squad. The marketing for this movie trolled my whole online presence - impossible to ignore the movie.
Now we know for sure - another movie which over-promised and under-delivered.
To say, that it is a bad movie is nonsense. It is a good action movie - however it never could point with unique characters or a great "ambiance". It never had mystique.
One of the main problems I seen in the movie was Will Smith. Don't get me wrong - like so many people I also agree, that he really oozed charisma. But he wasn't Deadshot - and maybe he is the best example, what the producers did wrong. Will Smith played a soldier in this movie - somebody who is quite good with his guns. However he didn't fetishised his guns (enough), nor was he really a (perfect) serial killer for money. They portrayed him as "good father" and as mentioned: as kinda soldier... all the possibilities of the movie already then went south.
If I think of the members of Suicide Squad, I think of bad people, who are criminal, insane, dangerous, ruthless... However in the movie, the members were just people, who did have some abilities and did the wrong choices. We could call it "good-washing". In fact I didn't wanted to watch a movie about some anti-heroes which become "good guys". I wanted to see bad guys, who were exploited to do bad stuff (with hopefully a good outcome) and have fun with it.
Further there are issues with the logic: Batman and the Flash were in this movie - but if a crisis of epic proportions arises, they are not responding and try to help to avert the possible extinction of the human race? Yeah right. And why are Captain Boomerang (who happen to be great with boomerangs), or especially Harley Quinn deployed for the mission? TAt hey don't even have "superpowers"... And really - do we need in any comic movie the prospect of extinction? If compared to Deadpool, it was a successful movie, without the possible destruction of the world.
What really bugged me, was the potential of the movie, which never was used. Really bad people are extremely interesting to portray - but maybe except of Harley Quinn (which still could have been far crazier and definitely more manipulative as a psychiatrist) the characters were all "good people which made bad choices. This is just boring stuff we seen a thousand times.
Another point is the rating. Suicide Squad - even more than Deadpool would deserve an R-rating. The Joker having crazy potentially violent sex with Harley, would have added to the real craziness. Opponents which look like people, not like hardened Play-Doh would also have been helped.
At the end we have had a movie, which was far too conservative to be great. And a producer which over-promised and under-delivered. A shame.