I am so, so, so, so disappointed.

Rating: 2/10 (14 August 2016)

So. This film. What do I even say about this film? Possibly the most disappointing film I've ever seen?
First of all, let's talk about the pros (there aren't many.) The first pro is the first 30 minutes of this film was good. It was gritty, and brutal and I was rather surprised at the critics reviews at that point. The scenes of torture are great, and very stomach- turning. However, after 30 minutes, the film becomes the most generic action superhero movie ever to exist.
Another pro are the performances. Everyone was committed to their role, especially Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn and Viola Davis as Amanda Waller. Cara Delevingne's character Enchantress was a great villain.
I guess the last pro I can find is the movie was consistently funny and had me laughing. Sometimes accidentally (the slow motion scenes in fights? Really?) had me laughing like crazy, and sometimes Harley Quinn had me in stitches.
Now the cons.
WHERE THE HELL WAS THE JOKER? He was probably in this movie for about 5 minutes, and all his scenes were in the trailers for the film. His performance was good (I think? I couldn't judge due to the fact that he basically makes cameo appearances scattered throughout the film for no apparent reason that doesn't add to the story-line one bit. Wait, did I say story-line? Sorry, there is no story-line!)
The story. What story? The first 30 minutes of the film is force-fed character development, and the rest of the film is the team trying to get from one end of the street to another without being attacked by these giant CGI blackberry thingies. Unfortunately; they stop every twenty seconds to either deliver a cheesy one-liner or stop to drink. Like, what?
Also THE EDITING. The flashback sequences with Harley Quinn and the Joker feel so, so, so out of place (especially the torture sequence,) and the editing makes the film so confusing and hard to follow. The film tries to cram way too much source material into one film, and the film just feels like a massive build up for the standalone Harley Quinn film coming in 2019. Also, Batman was hardly in the movie but Ben Affleck even looked like he didn't care anymore.
Also Slipknot. I'm not even going to get into this character as I can't without giving spoilers, but what the hell were the writers thinking? Why was he even in the film?
And so, so, so much more is wrong with this film. The writing is confusing; the film is overlong; the film barely has any story and the character development feels so forced. It is so obvious that the film was dark, and gritty (proved by the film's first act,) but the studio decided it should be more light with poor editing. So, now you have a tonally confused movie (some scenes are very dark, some are very light, some are gory, some are G-level violence) with choppy editing. I mean, what?
I'm giving 2 stars for this film. One star for the film's first 30 minutes; and one star for the performance of Enchantress. Even though she looked like she was hula dancing for all the film; she provided a consistently good performance throughout.
Overall, a great start, but then dumbs down into a tonally weird, laughably bad film with some good performances. It's a shame the talent was completely wasted on the poor film. I really wanted to like it; and I did for 30 minutes!
Then I got bored. Sorry DCEU, I've officially given up with you after the convoluted messy pile of dog poop you called BvS, and this poorly editing light/dark film Suicide Squad.