Stock up on Advil.

Rating: 2/10 (26 October 2019)

The brief enjoyment I received from my viewing of "Suicide Squad" did not come from the film itself. During the skull-splitting climax a character delivers a line so awful, that my cinema actually began to collectively cackle at the tragedy of it. Yes. We were all laughing at just how bad this flick was. Banal, bloated and as boisterous as a sugar-fuelled child, you'll feel your eyes pulling from your head mere minutes in. The damnable squandering of first-class songs is a mere bullet point on the list of frustrating choices made in this production. Characters' motivations are as shallow as a paddling pool and just as we sense we may soon migrate to the deep end the jackhammer editing dunks you on your head. This script, as it is, seems to have been scraped out in only weeks, perhaps in a dim room whilst two sheets to the wind. The talented cast have near-naught to work with. It's difficult to say that David Ayer (director and writer) acted alone, and although he's produced accomplished work in the past, one hopes this franchise and these characters are warranted more time and creativity in cinema to come.