A Fun Disappointing Mess

Rating: Null/10 (7 August 2016)

Anyone who thinks this movie is excellent is either a kid or someone who doesn't know anything about movies.
Let's start with the good things. The first act is very entertaining and promising. It begins with Amanda Waller talking about the Suicide Squad, their backstories and how they caught them. It might seem like lazy writing but it doesn't matter because of the good and entertaining execution. The best things about this film are the characters and the performances. Viola Davis is great, she really pulls off the scary, mean lady type. Will Smith is awesome as Deadshot, he was really cool and funny and he has a really good backstory involving his daughter, that you actually care about, and probably has the best action scene in the movie where he's on top of a car. He has very good chemistry with Harley Quinn and a very entertaining and developing relationship with Rick Flag, who was very good as well. Margot Robbie is also really good as Harley Quinn, she's funny but crazy, and like Deadshot her backstory is explored the most through flashbacks. Which brings me to Jared Leto as the Joker. I was really hyped for him and I wanted to see what he can do, but there's really nothing to say because the Joker is only in ten minutes of this movie. And the scenes that he's in are not scenes, there just moments of him mostly through flashbacks, and every one of them was shown in the trailer so you think he's going to be an important part of the movie and also the villain, which he is not, he's actually only in the movie for Harley and the other moments of him don't have anything to do with the rest of the movie or the plot. And those moments don't slow down so the Joker doesn't have any scenes where you can examine Leto's performance. And that was really disappointing. Which brings me to the fact that this movie is poorly edited and you just know that a lot of it was cut out. The scene where Joker is going to torture Harley Quinn is all in just a flashback full of cuts.
The second and third act of this movie are just random and not memorable action scenes , in this city, between some scenes of dialogue and funny moments, which sometimes work and sometimes do not. Even though I have to admit that this movie was funny and I did laugh a lot.
Some of the characters are completely wasted like Katana, Killer Croc and Slipknot who wasn't even shown a backstory and who dies in the first two minutes.
The biggest problems of this movie are the plot and the villain. The villain is Enchantress who is this evil witch who wants to take over the world and shots a big beam in the sky to open portals or something. She also has a brother who's this big CGI monster who I don't care about enough to remember his name, by the way the CGI is actually very bad and it just looks ridiculous. So its a completely cliché villain plot with a cliché ending where they defeat the big magical monster by throwing a bomb at the middle of the beam and it explodes and everything is fine now. And we think June Moone is dead so it's a sad moment, but guess what, she's alive and were all happy now. A similar scene is where the Joker's helicopter crashes and Harley's sad because she thinks he's dead and it's supposed to be a sad moment but it isn't because we all know the Joker's not dead.
And the last thing about this movie. Jai Courtney is surprisingly pretty good as Captain Boomerang, he's funny and enjoyable but his character is completely useless. And it makes you think, why would they sent a crazy girl with a bat, a guy who shoots people, a girl with a sword and a guy with a boomerang to go fight this magical creature. The only one who's actually useful and can do some damage is Diablo who's actually a really cool character.
In the end, the movie was funny and entertaining, the characters were good, but the plot/story, the editing and the villain were trash.
I liked Batman v Superman but I definitely don't love this movie. I give it a 6.5/10