Suicide Mess.

Rating: 4/10 (19 August 2016)

Or "Antihero gone wrong." Or maybe "Direct-to-TV movie on the big screen". It's like watching some Thor: The Dark World - you don't know what the bloody actual duck is going on. Everything is so faceless, everything is so stretched out... but at least there it kind of looked like a superhero movie.
This thing... I think this should actually be Ghosbusters 3, with Gozer coming back. Because, seriously, there was nothing superhero here. I know it's about metahumans and stuff, but damn, if Jeremy Renner can pull it off(much less Deadpool) - why can't a whole freaking squad?
Speaking of the squad - it's laughable. Over 50% of the people probably went to see the movie just to look at Margot Robbie's underwear. She acted well, granted, but was probably the biggest eye candy there is. Is that how she really is in comics? I know Black Widow is blamed for that reason exactly, but she is at least in a full leather suit and has quite a character. Harley's character is like a punchline without a joke. She has a couple of bullying scenes, but instead of being a strong, ferocious fighter, she is... just being there for the shots. She narrates, gets the shots, and that's it.
Deadshot, to be honest, does not need to be played by Smith. Really, the amount of character and the amount of action he had - could've been easily done by any black Marvel actor. Why would I say it... oh, right, because they've already had more character, so it's done. I admit, I don't like Smith, he is overpaid and over-hyped. But if he can do things, like the original Independence Day or other older movies - he does it. Here he just... makes a few faces occasionally. And delivers a few lines of forced dialogue. I don't see why people think he saves the movie. He is written, sort of, but he gets too much screen time for no good reason. He is like the leader against all common sense, a cute and cuddly assassin, who is suddenly legit. One would think an assassin, who can whack-talk a buyer into 2$mil salaries - would've done a few jobs and disappeared, just stolen his daughter for f's sake and lived in a mansion somewhere remote. No, he needs to be kind of Ant Man, who is struggling to get a job in Baskin Robbins.
Rick Flag is... yawn. Anyone watched Captain Phillips? Now there's the SEAL Leader. Just a leader of a spec-ops team created to get -it done. Almost R. Lee Ermey style. Here we have a pussy-whipped American hero, who... Do I really need to continue?
That's about it. Diablo is DC's Quicksilver. A character sort of there just to die stupidly in the end. Katana doesn't do anything(except ridicule the Japanese culture, down to the point of harakiri). Jay Courtney is, as always, wasting screen time. Killer Croc's biggest performance in the movie was the reveal that he is black. And why exactly did they add Slipknot? To show that Jay is an a-hole? It's funny, with the speed of his escape, a child could gun him down, but he needed to be made an example...
As for the Joker... well, I kind of liked him. He tried. Overacted, perhaps, but at least he tried to get to the comics' level. Unfortunately, there is a thin line between smart and crazy, and Leto went with full on crazy. We've had a clown of the nineties. We've had an unnerving terrorist of Nolan. And in the comics, he looked crazy, but he was ultimately sinister. Here he just... kinda... makes faces, does crazy things... He serves as an exposition, and not just as an exposition, but more like a wrong advertisement. Like a dentist's drilling tool in the toothpaste ad. Looks good, but leaves an aftertaste... Still, as any crazy character - at least crazy is guaranteed to have character, and Leto gets a credit for trying.
Now for the bad guys. Well, they pop out of out nowhere. Here's Enchantress, deciding to do... uhm... a little bit of night walking, which conveniently coincides with the anti-heroes first class. Her brother is that kind of invulnerable almighty guy that will die, because of something stupid. Like Apocalypse. And she is practically Azazel+Scarlet Witch, but all she does is a bit of choreography for the camera, and then she gets fooled like a troll in the first Hobbit movie. She can read their minds, see them through the walls, but she can't predict the most obvious deception? Who wrote that again? Oh, right, that was not about her, it was about Harley, she had to do something in the whole movie.
As for the minions, they are the classic minions. When they attack random SWAT teams - they are some ravaging, shifting and unkillable monsters, tearing people apart etc. When they fight out heroes, they become those droids from The Phantom Menace, who kind of just sit there on your shoulder until you throw them off. And they die with one bullet shot(or baseball bat whack)
On top of that - many questions remain:
-Who was shooting at the helicopters?
-Why did Walker's helicopter escape 20 feet off the ground right into the lightshow?
-Why did Walker keep these artifacts in her bedroom?
So... yes, for the small screen, a TV flick with a little bit of CGI, some costumes, little character development and crazy plot - that'd be quite a nice evening watch. But theatrical release with 175$mil budget? Let me guess, Will Smith costed at least 50.
Let's call Suicide Squad a "Scary Movie" of "DCU". Scary Movie 4 of DCU, to be precise.