Juggling 10 balls and catches 5

Rating: 5/10 (31 October 2016)

The highly controversial and highly anticipated film that furthers the story of the DC Universe. Suicide Squad tells a Dirty Dozen style story drawn around the street level villains in DC Comics who after imprisonment, are forced to work together to go on a suicide mission to save the city from other-worldly enemies.
The critics really have been tearing this film a new one claiming that it's hot garbage, mostly because it's not the Dark Knight in my estimation but the reality of the situation is that it's not as bad as all that. The action is cool, the acting is good and the characters are very interesting and fun to watch interact. The reality of the situation is that this movie is actually 5 or 6 different movies all going on at once. Some are really good and some are really bad but giving it one rating overall doesn't do the movie's individual parts justice. Suicide squad is a well-intentioned Deadshot movie about family and kids, a good Diablo movie about redemption, a Lifetime grade movie about Harley Quinn and her abusive douche bag boyfriend The Joker(who by the way, contrary to popular belief, I think was supposed to be an unlikable character. He's still a villain remember?! The Justice League has to fight him!), a half baked love story between Captain Flag and Enchantress and whatever screen time there was leftover got spent on everyone else so Killer Croc, Captain Boomerang etc were forced to fight it out for relevance or purpose in the film. That's where the problems come in. The movie is so preoccupied with juggling all 25 different balls it has in the air that it drops about 10 of them in the process. I could go into depth about what the movie gets right and wrong from my perspective but it all comes down to the fact that there were too many working parts for them to come together correctly. Ultimately, Suicide Squad gets a 2.5...out of 5.