It's undone some of DC's steps forward with The Dark Knight.

Rating: 4/10 (19 December 2016)

Suicide Squad, I find, gets worse the more I see it. It just doesn't know what the story it wants to tell really is. Is it end of the world stuff, that villains can be redeemable people, that scum and villainy is still a problem but not as big as we think? Suicide Squad is a fan service machine; and it's a bit cynical with how it thinks it can get away with telling an empty story that's too stuffed with under-cooked characters.
DC Comics Entertainment apparently went through a 'great' revision in the aftermath of Dawn of Justice's unexpected cinematic injustice (pun intended); what happened after that shake-up? They panicked about their next project and made it rosie-painted and poorly edited fodder just to fill in time for next year's Justice League movie.
I initially gave the film a seven; I can't keep that score because the film keeps getting a little worse every time I re-watch it. Sure there's a good moment here and there like Easter-eggs for longtime fans, but aside from that the film is just... empty. This is a film that just doesn't keep in terms of quality.
Suicide Squad fails as a crime film (it isn't one), it's not a well-executed superhero film, and the six-week-executed screenplay is further proof that this film was the victim of franchised tent-poling. The script is so baffling that it makes Batman v Superman's screenplay seem comparable to the works of Robert Towne and Charlie Kaufman. Goodfellas, The Godfather, Once Upon a Time in America: THOSE are REAL CRIME FILMS that any open-minded film-goer may end up appreciating. Suicide Squad ain't those movies; not even close.
If you want a film with well-rounded characters respecting your yearning for complexity and maybe subversive sympathy for a bad egg, or even remotely intelligent antiheroes, watch Taxi Driver. Robert De Niro's Travis Bickle is a stronger SINGLE character than the newly introduced TEAM of villains in this film.
Suicide Squad: makes me think of the suicide squad from Monty Python's Life of Brian. At least that's a real suicide squad.