Not as bad as I thought it would be

Rating: 5/10 (12 August 2016)

The draw for me to see this movie was Margot Robbie. I really enjoyed her performance in "The Wolf of Wall Street." In addition to her obvious physical attributes, she was funny, smart and engaging in that film. In "Suicide Squad," her posterior gets about the same amount of screen time as her face. Not that this is a bad thing from an aesthetic point of view, but her Harley Quinn was not nearly as dominant a presence as I was led to believe from the trailer and the press coverage. So I felt shortchanged. Other than that, Will Smith and Jay Hernandez really made the film for me. They overcame their typecasting to bring depth and humanity to their characters. I liked the film's take on trying to make "bad" people sympathetic by showing how they got that way. Otherwise, this movie was just plain weird. Its gritty realism was totally at odds with the more fantastical elements; it seemed to have a split personality.