Boring Cliché

Rating: 1/10 (10 August 2016)

DC, what have you done? Following the "Dark Knight" trilogy this is beyond disappointing. This is just my personal opinion but I am by all means willing to explain why I feel this way.
1. No time for character development. A vital moment in every film is when you give the audience reason to care about the main characters, what they do, the decisions they make, and how the characters themselves affect the overall story. The Suicide Squad members did not affect the story. Harley did everything pretty much on her own.
2. 0 (zero) chemistry between characters. The body language and dialogue frequently clashed.
3. The characters were not as they were hyped up to be. Deadshot and Joker specifically come to mind in this particular problem. Joker is a performer, he's a CLOWN. When Joker was not written to perform for the audience but is instead preoccupied with confusing displays of affection for Harley, you know you have a problem (Joker's not affectionate to begin with). Leto simply was not allowed to be Joker. Deadshot was worse. Will Smith is a phenomenal actor who was thrown into the same screen with mediocre and stiff co-stars who suffered from a bad case of... Both of these supposed major characters with serious hype from media turned out to be rather minor.
4. HORRIFIC DIALOGUE Whoever wrote this screenplay needs to be spoken to harshly then fired. The lines were choppy. Situations were understated. Vernacular was outdated and conflicting.
5. I don't need to see SAMSUNG pop up on the screen every 15 minutes. Product placement was blatant and crass.
6. The whole movie was forced. Nothing felt natural. Gotham city is not a PG-13 city. Gotham is an R rated city with very dark and depressing themes. More than half the cast should never have been introduced. The movie wastes a lot of time rushing their intros and then has too little time in which they rush the plot.
7. The plot hardly exists. Enchantress wants to annihilate humanity. Harley stops her. The end. Should take maybe an hour and a half (if you want slow and gradual buildup), but ends up taking two hours. So factor in at least 30 minutes of, "Hi, my name is ___________ and I won't be doing much. #YOLO" Dialogue is that bad, yes.
8. Did I mention Joker + Social Media? That was painful to sit through. Painful. Fortunately it was quick. We didn't suffer long.
9. It wasn't bad enough to be laughed at and it certainly wasn't good enough to be enjoyed. Suicide Squad was boring. I was bored almost to sleep. It's been a while since I fell asleep during a movie at the theater. I did not expect Suicide Squad to do that to me. I stayed awake only because I didn't want my friend to realize it had been a complete waste of time.
How this movie could've been saved: 1. Follow the script and don't second guess yourself with multi-million dollar re-shoots. The first trailer was captivating, eerie, and exciting. The final trailer was messy, too exaggerated in all the wrong ways, and cliché.
2. Spend that extra couple million on better cast, better editing, and better effects.
3. Pick a genre.
4. Pick an antagonist.
5. Pick a protagonist.
6. Plan to have antagonist and protagonist disagree on something.
7. Have that something turn into a problem that needs to be fixed.
8. Plan to have that problem addressed.
9. Pat yourself on the back because you just discovered plot.