Worst DCEU film yet

Rating: 3/10 (6 January 2017)

I had really high hopes for this movie after seeing the trailers. I thought it would a funny, dark comedy kind of superhero movie with lots of awesome action, and a new rendition of the Joker that could live up to the standards of previous ones. Boy was I wrong...
Let's start with the editing. It's godawful and makes everything in the movie hard to follow. The movie just randomly moves between scenes with no real transitions or setup. The effects are also pretty terrible. The Ancient God Whatevers look like they belong in an Asylum film. Not in a movie with a budget of 175 million dollars. And Killer Croc looks like the lovechild of Jaws and George Costanza with a bad case of greyscale.
The acting in this film is okay. Margot Robbie does a good Harley Quinn, Jai Courtney isn't terrible for once and is actually funny at times, and Will Smith is Will Smith cosplaying as Deadshot. Everyone else is either forgettable or has really terrible lines. Like Rick Flagg, who is just there to give shitty exposition so the movie can just add random fan service characters without worrying about actually having to show their personality and traits.
But the worst part of this film is the Joker. With any Joker incarnation, he should be able to make the audience laugh and be scared by his performance. Jared Leto's version tries way to hard to be both and fails miserably. When he tries to be funny and over the top, he just comes off as extremely cringy, and when he tries to be scary, he just seems like like an edgy tryhard. His acting as Joker isn't helped by his terrible design. I mean come on, those stupid tattoos are basically exposition on his character because Rick Flagg isn't there to explain him. The film also absolutely butchered Harley Quinn and Joker's relationship. Suicide Squad made it seem like the Joker actually loved Harley. Their relationship was always meant to be an abusive one where Harley has deluded herself into thinking the Joker loves her, when in reality, the Joker is just using her. This leads to the Joker coming off as more of a lovesick puppy instead of a manipulative criminal mastermind. And if a film can't even get its most hyped characters right, it isn't worth wasting your time watching.