Suicidal tedium.....

Rating: 2/10 (17 August 2016)

It never ceases to amaze me how so much hype and money can be spent to produce something that, in my opinion, is fundamentally tedious.
Suicide Squad commits harakiri early in the piece.It opens with glacial speed offering up thick slices of cynically self important, US establishment blather. The bureaucratic puffery is broken up by what I can only describe as bland, formulaic action "spam". Canned action sequences, made more gruesome by utterly uninteresting, often cretinous, characterizations.
For me this set the tone for the whole film which limps from uninteresting scene to scene before finally and mercifully expiring, after 123 minutes.To be honest I was not going to wait that long for this thing to put a gun to its own head and walked out half way through.
Perhaps the only good thing to come from this experience was to reaffirm my belief that my time is valuable. That includes my free time. My advice, take your entertainment "seriously" and seek out worthwhile films that offer up action but also, at least, a modicum of intelligence, wit and genuine flair. Two out of ten from me.