Movie Had Potential but Fell Short.

Rating: 5/10 (14 August 2016)

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I really want to like this movie, I really do. I like all the actors/actresses (Especially Will Smith), but unfortunately I'm not here to rate the actors, I'm here to rate the movie. The problem with this movie is not the actors/actresses, rather, everything else.
The movie is weak in all other aspects. To get the villain out of the way, she's a strong witch that I actually liked a lot. Unfortunately, she got dumb down to a 'stupid' villain that could destroy the world but doesn't. Instead, she wastes time dancing and doing pesky things that does nothing but buy the Suicide Squad time to stop her, of course. The witch and her brother pretty much took over the whole city, killing the army like it's butter and not getting harmed by anything thrown at them. This is ridiculous because guess how they died? The witch was cut with a sword and the brother was killed with a bomb, one that really shouldn't be powerful enough to stop him. This very anti-climatic outcome got me shaking my head and saying to myself, 'really? lame!' (Extremely unbelievable and hard to buy)
Moving on to the humor. It's painful to say the least. Most of the humor in the movie don't just feel rushed, they ARE rushed and you know it. I cringed more than a couple times at how awkward and embarrassing the jokes were and something tells me there's no way in hell the actors didn't feel the same way. Removing all of the cheesy 'one-liners' will make the movie many times better.
The suicide squad is more of like the suicide duo. The whole movie is focused on Deadshot and Harley Quinn, with the rest thrown in so they can change 'duo' to 'squad.' They rarely get screen time, they don't get a decent introduction or backstory. They rarely talk or have any dialogue at all and to make it worse, they're usually the ones making the lame and cheesy jokes. Most of them aren't even needed and their attempt to cover that up with a simple scene for each person wasn't enough to convince me. It was like me playing varsity basketball in school. I was benched all season until finals, never made a shot, played a few seconds near the end, got a few assists, and got my gold medal. Yea, baby!
Joker... what a joke! (Not in a good way). I actually liked the actor, he did a great job and I enjoyed seeing him. The problem, again, has nothing to do with the actors. You pretty saw all there was to see of the Joker in the trailers, minus a few short scenes that shows him saving Harley Quinn. Doesn't really make a big impact in the movie as just kind of just 'there.'
Amanda Waller, the person who was responsible for everything that happened was not very convincing. They keep trying to present her as some sort of hardcore 'bad-ass' but she really doesn't seem like it. She comes off as a 'tryhard' and someone who you think would have been killed a long time ago but for some reason, she's still alive. And that is confusing and it takes away from the experience. Even Deadshot makes a comment on it near the end of the movie.
Story/pacing is pretty much like what people are saying. It's a two hour movie that feels like it's only 30 minutes long, but not in a good way. You sit down, feel like the movie just started, start to get ready for the good stuff to happen, nothing happens and it's over. It feels like it's only 30 minutes long because it feels like there's not much to it.
To make the movie better they need to cut out the bad jokes and one- liners. They need to have more character backstory/development or have the characters be more involved with each other. They need to give the villains a brain and have them actually pose a threat and force the protagonists to actually collaborate with each other, learn something new or become more creative to stop the villain. Not dumb down the villain so they all essentially kill themselves.