Any good screenwriter gets suicidal after seeing this movie

Rating: 5/10 (8 August 2016)

Before I begin I just want to all to know that I neither a Marvel fanboy nor a DC one. I enjoyed superhero movies for most of the time till they began to spread out like - I don't think of another better comparison - cancer with all the sequels, prequels, reboots and stuff. But moviegoers still seem to enjoy most of these films. IMHO this genre peaked with the Nolan/Batman trilogy and had some great other ones like Iron Man, The Avengers, Guardians, Deadpool i.e.
The whole concept of the story behind Suicide Squad seems like a farce. The filmmakers are throwing names, characters, resume's towards us like there is no tomorrow. I asked myself in the first half hour if I forgot to watch the one before. There is not an elaborated background story at all except for the Joker/Harley part. There isn't a plausible reason why the Squad is formed to a squad. There isn't any logic behind any decision of the members of the Squad. So if any movie of his magnitude hasn't got a decent story, you began to watch out for flaws - and there are many of them.
First one, casting. Cara Delevingne is the miscast of the century. Although she was really okay in Paper Towns and The Face Of An Angel - this one is a total fail. It was like watching the villain in the Stargate movie all over again. Jared Leto's Joker is of course not comparable to Heath Ledger's Joker. But he fails to deliver badly, mainly because of his voice, hairdo and mask - he is like Jim Carrey as The Riddler in a bad way.
Than, the soundtrack. I like most of the songs. The Rain from Orange "Juice" Jones - just great to hear this one again. But the whole "let's take some of the known hits of the last 25 years" doesn't fall in place, it's like a mash-up gone wrong. They are playing The White Stripes and you are thinking "really? this one?".
On the plus side you have Margot Robbie who is the best character and she steals almost every scene in this. She has the best one-liners and gags of all the Squad members. Will Smith played well - he was back in acting shape.
So why went this wrong? I think that the filmmakers wanted to avoid comparisons to Guardians or Watchmen. And they wanted too much. A superhero saga with seven (or even more?) characters yet unknown to the moviegoers. So they hadn't got time and place for character development.
Now comes the spoiler part: I would have started with the Flag/Moone relationship as Moone is the key element of the story. Starting with this, they could've blended into the whole government Squad building program. Maybe thrown in some other members or army people, just to have some kind of a solid backstory. Well, they didn't.
So it gets a very unfulfilled 5/10