The good & bad of Suicide Squad

Rating: 6/10 (9 June 2017)

Suicide Squad is a bit of a mixed bag, it does have some entertaining moments but overall felt this movie was a bit of a let down.
The good:
-The performances from Margot Robbie, Jared Leto & Will smith. Jared Leto as the Joker sparked a lot of debate with his performance, I feel he did a good job and generally wanted to see more and more of him throughout the film and hope he does feature in another D.C. Film. The 'gangster' take that he took on as the joker was a unique performance & am glad he didn't try and replicate the Heath Ledger version of the Joker. Margot Robbie & Will Smith worked well together as Harley Quinn & Deadshot as the two main characters & felt that their origin stories were quite intriguing as to how they ended up in prison & came to be the way they are.
-The storyline between the joker & Harley Quinn - I felt was more interesting than the actual main plot of the movie and hope this storyline between them & how the joker corrupted Harley gets explored in more detail in another movie (hopefully the Harley Quinn solo movie)
-The soundtrack, most of the songs were quite good & mostly suited the mood of the film.
The bad:
-The main story - felt this was a bit of a let down as the squad basically just had to stop a portal in the sky which we have now seen several times in movies over the last few years e.g the avengers & TMNT
-The villain - did not like Enchantress as the villain, she was way to powerful for most of them in the squad (except Diablo) & did have to question why some of them where there & to what they could actually do to stop enchantress. Felt I would have enjoyed them Going up against the joker or having someone more human like him as the villain instead.
-The pacing - Went from the origin stories to all of sudden trying to stop the super powers of enchantress, felt this was brought on very suddenly & didn't allow much time to develop the characters - which leads me to.......
-Supporting cast - some of the characters such as Killer Croc & Captain Boomerang, I would have liked to know more about their origin stories which perhaps could have been done in another movie. Killer Croc was very underutilized, Kitana & slipknot don't even know why they were in the movie & Rick Flag just seem to love struck by Enchantress to be the leader of the squad. Captain Boomerang however was good in the scenes he was in.
Maybe I had too high hopes for this movie, after Batman vs Superman which I actually enjoyed. I would like to see a more in depth sequel to this movie or perhaps a Harley Quinn solo movie exploring more of her and the Jokers relationship & would be quite happy if Margot Robbie & Jared Leto reprise these roles.