Ruined by the fingerprints of studio interference and misogyny

Rating: 1/10 (4 August 2016)

Warner Bros have clearly learnt overreacted to the critical backlash aimed at bvs. This film is a ghastly car crash of a movie. It feels like the studio drove a garish bus of frat boys into the dark sleek car of David Ayer's original vision. What could have been a darkly comic film has been turned into a overly silly nonsense fest complete with very obvious reshoot footage which shoe horns in some really really bad slices of what the studio thinks passes for humour. It is in short tonally all-over the place as is the pacing. That tone in the reshoot footage also stinks of misogyny especially when it comes to Harley Quinn. A character whom it would appear David Ayer's wanted to be shown as a deeply damaged and complex character is reduced to a overtly sexual object spouting one liners. Just awful.