The Joker and Harley Quinn shine in this otherwise average movie.

Rating: 7/10 (4 August 2016)

Suicide Squad was a very average, border line below average, take on the new "Super Team" fad that has been going around Hollywood. The action wasn't anything special and there was plenty of cheesy superhero moments (i.e. Diablo's line "I already lost one family, I'm not losing another!"). Most members of the Suicide Squad are just down right uninteresting. Save for Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn and Will Smith's Deadshot. Although Deadshot turned out to be a cliché, it was still a good performance by Will Smith and by no means boring to watch. However this movie truly shines when The Joker, played by Jared Leto, and Harley Quinn are on screen. Especially when the two of them are on screen together. The two characters have an absolutely insane relationship and feed off of each other's craziness/creepiness making them a blast to watch on screen together. The only problem is there's not enough of that in this movie. I realize that this movie isn't solely focused on those two, but it should be. They are by far the most entertaining part of this movie and really carry this other wise unremarkable movie. If you are expecting a Heath Ledger type of Joker then you will be disappointed. Where as Ledger's Joker is more of an anarchist who wants to cause chaos in the criminal underworld, Leto's Joker dominates it. This version of the Joker is a very accomplished criminal and basically an underworld kingpin. But yet he still manages to maintain just the right amount of insanity in every scene he's in. Another problem with this movie is the director and writers seem to have forgotten that the members of the Suicide Squad are supposed to be bad guys. None of them really feel like villains. My only gripe with Harley Quinn was she wasn't as ruthless as she should have been, especially when compared to the Joker. As far as setting up more events in the DC universe, this movie pretty much does what you expect. Overall if you really wanted to see this movie, I still would, but if your'e on the fence maybe wait for a cheap showing or rental.