A little shabby, but not too shabby

Rating: 6/10 (7 August 2016)

I'll begin with a few strong aspects of the movie. This was an entertaining movie, with a nice colour scheme to boot. I was really digging the bright neon theme! And the soundtrack was alright.
The big-bad-guy for this movie, despite having the usual goal of bad guys which mostly involves world domination and other similar things, was entertaining! Visually, pretty cool.
Harley Quinn was cute! Could've done without the mediocre back-story, but I like how she's a mixture of silly and psycho.
Now for a couple of weak aspects... When I saw the trailer for Suicide Squad, I immediately knew that it wasn't going to be funny. The humour was forced, to say the least. If the theatre had been packed with a bunch of my clones, the after-joke pauses in the movie would have been filled with awkward silences rather than the few dispersed chuckles I'm fairly sure I heard. That's for most of the jokes though. There were a few laugh-worthy moments in the film.
The plot was fairly lame, but what do you expect from a movie based off a comic? I mean, there's usually only two teams: the good guys and the bad guys. And, well, they're usually fighting one another. So don't expect anything too profound in that respect, other than the fact that now bad guys are fighting other bad guys for the good guys.
Despite these things though, I would probably watch the movie again, even if the writing was perhaps a little awkward and the characters not quite as insane as I would've liked. There were some intriguing moments which I wouldn't mind seeing again.