Do not see what the hate is all about

Rating: 10/10 (5 August 2016)

I just saw the movie last night and I was actually surprised, pleasantly, to see what was on screen because the reviews have been so shitty; Rotten tomatoes has it at a 27% but Metacritic has it at 51. Anyway, the movie starts off great with Waller introducing the characters via montages and pleads her case the two men. The military is then brought in to hear Waller's plan and when the General says no, Enchantress gets introduced. Waller controls the Enchantress because she possesses the heart of the Enchantress and shows that off when the Enchantress doesn't return to human form by stabbing the heart. General gives Waller the greenlight on Task Force X.
After the meeting, in a hotel, Enchantress wakes up Flag and then teleports to Waller to take her heart but Waller has a sensor on it. Enchantress then teleports to Midway City and takes over a stranger in a subway, turning him into her brother AKA the muscle. He wreaks havoc in the subway and molds into a being, looking like a metal pharaoh- like being. The General then sees the mess, via subway camera, and gives the OK to Task Force X. Waller gathers the team together and then they are on their way.
A subplot in this is the Joker. The Joker wants Harley back because he misses her. He has a few scenes where he is trying to locate her whereabouts. He gives Ike Barinholtz's Griggs a cell phone to give to Harley to let her know that he's coming for her.
To speed up the review, they wind up in Midway City to extract a person of high value from a building and then they are supposed to extract. After losing a lot of soldier to the Enchantress and Slipknot due to Flag killing him, they get the high value target, who winds up being Waller. The extraction chopper comes only to be the Joker and his men. Harley leaves with him but the chopper gets shot down, releasing Harley and having Joker die. Waller gets taken by the brother of Enchantress and they use her brain to attack satellites and ships that are top secret. The squad, after a short bar break to get to know each other better, goes to rescue Waller and Enchantress' human form, June Moon. After Enchantress tries to corrupt their minds with what each member wants in life, featuring a Deadshot killing Batman and Joker n Harley married with kids, Diablo fights the brother and turns into a big, burning entity. After holding him off, Scott Eastwood's character kills himself due to detonating a bomb; this ends up killing Diablo and the Brother. Enchantress has a final battle with the Squad and winds up losing because Harley pretended to join her but ends up slicing her heart out. Deadshot shoots an explosive thrown by Croc and ends the Enchantress. Flag takes the heart and destroys it and Moon comes back.The final scene is to Bo Rhap and shows the squad in prison only to have an explosion cut the music. Men unlock Harley's cage and the Joker reveals himself, ending the movie with "Let's go home". The mid credits scene is Waller asking Bruce Wayne for protection of the media that can incriminate her. Bruce then asks for her end of the deal, which is the top secret files of all the meta-humans. Overall, the movie was a lot of fun. It was cohesive and set up a good side story to the DCEU. Marvel is ahead of the curve thus far, but with good directing and writing, the DCEU MAY have a chance. The action was good, acting was good minus a few cheesy lines, like the Flag to Moon exchange at the end, and we get good characters to continue the DCEU with.
As a side review on Leto... while not a big role, like around 10-15 minutes combined, Leto captured a very different Joker. Joker is in love and obsessed with Harley. One of the flashbacks is him asking her if she would live FOR him and she jumps into the acid, devoting herself. He then walks away but goes back to save her. It shows his reluctance at first and then his acceptance. He owned the screen and I was wanting more from him each time he was on the screen. He did a great new take on the Joker. A lot was clearly cut out of his role and I don't know why but I am hoping to see that when the blu-ray comes out. Great job by Leto for capturing a predator-like, obsessive monster. His tats, btw, aren't really standouts so I don't see the issue with that anymore. I liked the look of him and his mannerisms as well. Very comic book like Joker in this flick and the Harley love angle was a nice new take. His role, sadly, was 90% flashbacks but his ending scene when he breaks Harley out sets ups some nice potential movies.