Just bad....

Rating: 2/10 (6 August 2016)

Lets do this, as Will Smith's character Deadshot said; So I saw Suicide Squad tonight and as I predicted a long time ago, it was bad and it was actually worse than I thought it was going to be. I'm going to focus on each character individually to focus the rant. DEADSHOT, played by Will Smith, was the murderer for hire / father of the year / hero / villain with the heart of gold, but really he was just plain old Will Smith so he ends up being the main guy in the movie which is pretty lame because that's not what Deadshot would ever be. Killer Croc is now a, very stereotypical, black criminal, that smacks of Michael Bay's 2 urban Transformers that spoke in a ridiculous Ebonics dialect. In addition, to his thick "inner city speak", Croc growls like a Lion a little too often but the really weird thing about Killer Croc is that he seems to actually shrink over the course of the movie, having been massive during most of the flick and by the end, Croc seems oddly small?? Captain Boomerang's superpower is complete uselessness. Amanda Waller, played by the great Viola Davis is simply a weaker version of the completely "unshakeable" Waller that I know from comics and cartoons. Katana, a character I really wanted to like more, partially because that's my daughter's name, but no, I did not name her after the DC character. Katana's character bio was right out of the comics but we didn't get enough of anything else to make her any more than forgettable. El Diablo is the fire guy / children and wife murdering Latin gang member / reformed bad guy / the villain that doesn't want to use his powers because it's not his fight guy / the guy that could end every fight in 2 seconds but only uses it during the final fight character, so basically, fire/cliché' guy? Harley Quinn, played by Margot Robbie, who looks like her character without much effort, so that's a big plus! Robbie's portrayal is fun but I expected her to be THE comic relief of this film and she was, but most, if not all the humor was chuckle worthy at best. I loved the casting of Robbie from the start but they Warner Bros. never seems to deliver with the characters that matter the most. The Enchantress is a character that I know absolutely nothing about but that really doesn't matter because she was solely used as the focal point of a terrible story. After the "god- like" Enchantress mows down dozens or hundreds of soldiers and takes over a section of the city she capture Amanda Waller and asks Waller, "How she can destroy the army" or something like that? Nonsensical on ANY level, just like most everything else. I thought Jared Leto was a good call for the Joker but sadly, the Joker doesn't appear in this movie. However there is a white faced, green haired, tattooed idiot that is nearly incomprehensible in every scene? Rick Flag, who cares.... Now that the characters are out of the way, I'm going to reveal the dreaded "Martha" moment in this stupid movie: Rick Flag is the military company man who leads this group of bad guys for Waller so he's the guy they all hate. So near the end of the movie when they're all about to throw in the towel, Flag pulls out a bunch of letters from Deadshot's daughter and says, "she writes you every day" and BOOM, turning point, now they're buddies and Deadshot says, "lets do this" or "lets go save the world", doesn't matter because it's just bad. I could go on and on about every terrible detail but why bother when I can simply say that it's one of the worst movies I've ever seen and it really does make BvS: Dong of Justice seem good, because at least Wonder Woman was awesome and we got a pretty solid cinematic Batman for the first time ever. Suicide Squad is poorly written and cringe worthy throughout the entire movie and from where I sit the future still looks bleak for the Warner Bros/DC universe. The answer is simple, be true to your characters and it almost always works out for everyone.