I liked it, but...

Rating: 5/10 (7 August 2016)

It was fun, no doubt, but what the film did well was cancelled out by it's flaws. Some of these flaws are minute details that many would be willing to overlook, but to others it's impossible. The one that annoyed me most was the relationship between Harley and the Joker. She's meant to love him and this was shown in the film, but she's meant to LOVE him! She's obsessed whilst on the other hand, The Joker has little regard for poor Harley. Their relationship in the film was too even between the pair, the Joker wouldn't bother breaking her out of prison but Harley would have taken up Enchantress' offer to bring him back in a heartbeat. Other flaws include the pacing of the film, the introduction of each character was great, their profiles on screen were very stylish offering insight into each villain, but you could tell which characters were going to be at the forefront of the film through these. Captain Boomerang and Katana's introductions were lazy and didn't offer much to the film with both ending up as missed opportunities. There were other flaws but I'd be nitpicking if I were to debate over them, onto the good parts! Humour was incorporated well with some jokes falling flat and others being needless. Croc made me think of a Groot/Thing hybrid. He shouldn't be funny, he should be ruthless and cold. Will Smith, Margot Robbie, both superb. Will Smith's Deadshot isn't the Deadshot known from the when the Squad was formed but is a great character non the less. The other characters needed more depth and screen time to be appreciated and I hope justice is served if they appear in future films. I personally don't care much for Leto's Joker but that may be down to the fact he only appeared for 15 minutes tops, of maybe it's because he's just not Heath Ledger. The laugh seems out of place too. Considering all the hype surrounding the film pre-release I was left disappointed, but I had fun. For all the stick Deadpool got for it's lack of faith to source material, Deadpool's character was spot on if a little too heavy on the sex jokes, this deserves just as much if not more. Too often SS deviated from it's source material regarding character traits, I'm not too bothered if the story isn't ripped straight from the comic (it's more fun if it's something you haven't seen before) that certain characters were not who they were meant to be or had no purpose in the film other than to be extra targets for the bad guys so the big players had little trouble in combat. Oh yeah, the bad guys were pretty lame. Enchantress was cool, quite scary to be honest! But she's gone now so hey-ho. She deserved more. But the grunts were generic, faceless grunts that posed no threat to the 'heroes'. All in all, it was good but it really should have been better!