Mediocre

Rating: 5/10 (28 September 2016)

Suicide Squad did not live up to expectations. The idea of a team of awesome supervillians never seen before in the movies was very exciting. Unfortunately there were too many new supervillians, and not enough time. The story behind the characters was little to nothing. Will Smith's character Deadeye was an awesome hired assassin who couldn't miss. His character could have made a movie of its own along with any other of these characters. The backstory for him felt rushed. Captain Boomerang had one scene for backstory where he robs a bank. That's it. For them to introduce a new character and to show little backstory for them did not allow me to fall in love or root for them. Katana seemed like a real bad*** but I just couldn't learn enough about her. The joker and Harley Quinn scenes seemed liked they were part of a completely different movie. A movie about the backstory between these two new character which I would have much rather seen to be honest. The new Joker got everyone's hopes up since the phenomenal performance of Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight left many wondering what they could do next. I personally thought David Leto did a fantastic job with the new joker but he was showed only a handful of times. Not to mention the scene where he "died" which left me with no surprise that he turned up alive at the end. At points in the movie I actually ended up rooting AGAINST some of the main protagonists. Amanda Waller played by Viola Davis left me wondering if i should root for or against her. She tortured the witch she held under her control by stabbing her heart, and then obviously the witch is angered and is freed. Amanda Waller later shoots the people working for her so that nobody else would see what was going on. She shot all of those innocent people working for her. The ending seemed very bad even for this mediocre film. Amanda Waller puts all of the Suicide Squad back into prison with half of their sentence. They all have more than a life sentence and this means nothing to them. She puts the people that saved the whole world back into prison. Maybe they wouldn't be able to survive outside of prison as they would just get into more trouble but I wouldn't know that because I don't know anything about them. Too many things were left out from every character's story line that I felt they either needed more movie time, or less characters to actually make this movie work. This movie felt really rushed. Suicide Squad was very predictable and never for a moment did I think, "maybe they won't win." The final fight was small and most of the time I was thinking, "how" or "why." The fight of the two witches that could do anything, against a bunch of normal people with cool abilities and a fire guy, who's lines were extremely cheesy and cringe worthy, was predictable. The climax was everything short of a climax. A good climax should leave me on my seat wondering what will happen next but suicide squad left me wondering how much longer till they win. I know the good guys always win but this seemed to just be unoriginal in their attempt to change what made Suicide Squad different from other superhero movies. Suicide Squad had a lot of good things going for it with an awesome cast, and cool new characters and ideas to bring to the table. With all of this going for it, I still give it a 5 out of 10 for what felt like a summary of what a bigger and better movie Suicide Squad could have been.