"All hat, no cattle"

Rating: 4/10 (20 October 2016)

I think that everyone in here knows that after a current succession of poor movies under the name of DC Comics, this specific title garnered a lot of attention and demand, it's proportions basically sky rocketed into DC's front page, and unfortunately the nightmare happened. In terms of economics it might have ended out very positively, even dragging out the possibility for new titles, as for example, yet unexplored characters in DC's multiverse of comics being brought to the silver screen, regrettably, apparently the fronts they sought out to develop are already "household names".
In this such film, we can observe an indubitable try on attempting to captivate the mainstream audience, mainly by concentrating star power and, in consequence, not overlooking into major plot holes in the midst.
The acting and impersonating by part of the actors involved was not bad. The movie showed us some pleasing references(in case of the classic Harlequin costume and the famous Alex Ross' carnation). It even had it's share of entertaining scenes such as insight on the characters-and in some-actually made them more worthwhile, in this version of the Squad.
I find many aspects, let's say, questionable, while others, purely foolish. As for the questionable side: we go from cheesy miscellaneous details -harleen's bat increments, joker's tattoos, slipknot's hair,etc...- to other types of details different from the comics, just like putting that enhancer in Deadshot's left eye(I know there's a tending independent nature from comics but this just confuses me).
I gotta speak about the characters in general. Why was Spliknot even thrown in this movie, we know he's "a bad guy", but...honestly...have some respect. About Captain Boomerang, well, if it wasn't for the boomerangs I wouldn't even recognize him. On to Enchantress, there's something funny about her, she reminds me of Pig-Pen from Snoopy and at the same time Princess Leia(Slave); I enjoyed the choice of a Katana costume from "The New 52"(about that, some of the original costumes would have been horrible for this movie). A bulkier Rick Flag as is the original would have been a better option. The only detail that this Croc missed was a cap or some Jordans honestly, what the hell were they thinking in this version, the point is a complete monster, not this... The Harlequin portrayed in the movie was indeed satisfying, so was this version's Deadshot. Then we have El Diablo, I grabbed a liking for him actually, then there's the other side of the coin(which I shall talk about in a moment).
Now, to the "purely foolish" part.
Everyone knows someone HAD to die in the end, of course, Slipknot died, but that doesn't count, the only reason he made part of the Squad was only for softening the punch it was going to eventually take from the majority of the hardcore community as well from critics, nonetheless, the movie had to arrange itself a scapegoat(as actually mentioned in the movie), none other than El Diablo himself, the one where it had given us room to gather some kind of affection with...Even though this movie had the continuous aspect of no structure, and when it tried to have, it kept ruining the few things where you could say otherwise. When it comes to El Diablo, when he finally shown us his true self...the cliché strikes back..."I lost it just when I was about to end it", it was all set up since the beginning, they wanted to follow the original plan, and they got it. No martyr, just plain scapegoat. The only one that died! For his family!! What about a woman who got possessed, from whom everyone lost control of? The one indication we are left with is: the good American gets the happy ending.
Now, The Joker. No, I'm not talking about Jared Leto's performance, but of the spotlight he got, after all, this movie is called Suicide Squad, and Joker isn't part of it, some of the mainstream audience might have gotten a wrong picture even, thinking, he was a member of the Squad. From an overly extended insight , over to, not one, but many appearances(they even took advantage of that to create a whole side story on him, even encouraging on a future film about Joker).
Amongst other flaws, I believe that this may be the biggest. Between an occurrence threatening not only Midway City, but has said in the movie, able to compromise many cities around it(as the end drew near); while still being the home city of Hawkman and Hawkgirl, somehow, attracted zero attention to the eyes of heroes or superheroes, being that only a classified government suicide task force had been assigned to deal with it, and mainly because it was only trying to correct it's own mistakes. Of course that someone called Superman couldn't have sensed it...and that's just the tip of the iceberg...
In a final note, this movie would have amounted to something far greater(even saving DC), if it was a little less self-sufficient from comics, and as an argument, it pretty much resumes the movie in a few words.
(My first review of many)
Exact Rate:4.0