..looks and sounds good, with great characters... but story and plot need A LOT of work!

Rating: 3/10 (16 August 2016)

When I think of 'super hero movies' I often hear them- the 'Crow', 'Spawn' and 'Watchmen' movies all having such amazing sound tracks that a blind person could enjoy them equally. This is one of those awesome 'audio' movies with both modern and retro blaring beats.
It also has a fun color palette and visuals to match. All in all... it looks and sounds good, with great characters... but story and plot need A LOT of work! Instead of building a universe like 'Marvel', 'DC' has just thrown piles of money, characters and CGI at the wall like it did with 'Dawn of Justice' and fortunately for their pocketbooks and the zeitgeist most of it works.
Will Smith is NOT terrible, and it turns out he DOES 'play well' with others, which doesn't explain why he hasn't been in an ensemble since 'Independence Day' 20 years ago?
Margo Robbie is ALL and everything that you have seen and heard. She portrays fan favorite 'Harley Quinn' perfectly for the characters first live performance and she looks AMAZING every second of the film.
Cara Delevingne's 'Enchantress' is the only thing that could tear your eyes from Robbie. Her character has about four incarnations, each almost unrecognizable from the last and is completely fantastic and horrifying at most times.
'Joker' is excellent and should have been an integral part of the story instead of a reoccurring gimmick and back story. Jarod Leto is King in this role, playing a very slick and sexy version of the character. I am busting to see his chemistry with Ben Affleck's gritty 'Batman'.
The rest of the gang are pretty cool and fun, but at NO point in the movie does this team come across as 'the bad guys'. They're abused at points by their jailers and constantly threatened with death if they are disobedient, which paints them more like victims, and their actions out of prison are almost solely heroic.
The plot unfortunately is filled with holes and incredulity. It was more like a 'Justice League' threat, than a job for these convicted criminals. I feel it should have been less epic, and more of a "send a fox to catch a fox..." type story. There was so much unnecessary CGI, explosions, SFX and superfluous characters like the army guys running around all the time. There are three helicopter crashes that everyone survives in the middle of the city. The final enemy/threat/fight is sort of stupid, considering they are almost all 'B-list Batman villains' and the enemy are basically two omnipotent gods.
Lots to love in this movie, but once again, seems like it should have been a 'second or third phase' movie, rather than the third installment of the 'DC Universe' building attempt.