Walk to the building the movie

Rating: 7/10 (10 August 2016)

After the death of Superman, the world has become more aware, for better or worse, of the existence of metahumans and their potential threat to society. In case another powerful being shows up that doesn't exactly stands by Superman's moral code, the U.S. government wants to be prepared. This is why Officer Amanda Waller teams up a bunch of the best/worse criminals and forces them into a special ops mission in order to protect the world from evils even greater than themselves. Can Amanda trust the city's safety into a team of dangerous delinquents or will they try to turn against the government and run for their freedom?
Suicide Squad is the 3rd movie in the current DCEU, directed by David Ayer and his vision of what an anti-hero DC movie looks like. As a casual superhero fan, I don't have much background knowledge on the Squad. So this movie overtime became an opportunity to learn more about the more the more obscure DC characters that the mainstream audience may ignore. When the movie was initially announced, it seemed to be another dark and gritty entry in the DC movie series, but sometime after the BvS backlash and the success of Deadpool there was word that some scenes were re-shot to make the movie "more fun". Whatever that means. Now I didn't want to make much of it at the time, but then the marketing for this movie shifted into what I like to call "unicorn puke" level of color and imagery. I had concerns about it as it seemed that they were forcing to make this movie seem 'funner' than it actually was. How did that turn out?
Let's begin with the good stuff. I absolutely loved the characters, specially Amanda, The Joker, Harley Quinn in all her annoying punch line glory, Will Sm.. I mean Deadshot, Enchantress, El Diablo I do think this movie's characters are very appealing and the cast certainly played their roles respectfully. I would love to see more of them in the future. Also the idea of an anti-hero team fighting a greater evil is pretty cool because that makes their motivations a lot more sensitive rather than just "doing what's right". The beginning scenes and the final battle were pretty exciting and loved every second of those. The cameos from the Justice League members were glorious. I admit I felt a sense of comfort and hype whenever Batffleck showed up in the movie. It really made this movie feel like a bridge to even greater things from the DC camp.
I am from the crowd that does love the epicness Zack Snyder has brought to DC, so even though this movie was probably never meant to be as ambitious, I still had high standards for it. So that being said, there were things about it that certainly felt rough. Around the middle of the film particularly the pace is extremely slow, and I blame this on the fact that they started having deep conversations about the characters yet they spent very little time letting us get familiar enough with these characters. Their origin stories were literally reduced to a montage of 1 minute snippets each. It would have still been nice to have some extra context to them so we could relate more when the middle drama happened. Also, this made the movie feel like a 1 hour long "walk towards the building" scene were the only threat were putty-patrol looking baddies. The icing to the raw cake was that the "forced fun" was very blatant with the random mainstream songs shoved into the scenes and the non-funny cliché one-liners thrown almost every minute.
Suicide Squad is a decent entry in the DCEU that while not my favorite, I still found enjoyable enough to celebrate and talk about. It does indeed help expand the lore of the DCEU and makes a better case for the Justice League than BvS did. Now after this movie we know how far society would go to embrace both the best side and the worse side of the metahumans war. It is a nice diversion until we get the upcoming more epic entries in this film series.