Did I have fun? kind of. Was It good? not really

Rating: 6/10 (7 August 2016)

"Suicide Squad" exist from bad guys. The group they'll send in when they can't afford losing anyone. To control them, they have a bomb in their neck and a gift to look forward to. If they succeed, they'll lose 10 years of their sentence. If they don't, they die. Now the squad has a mission.
"Suicide Squad" is directed by the wonderful director David Ayer. I call him wonderful because of his previous films ("End of Watch" and "Fury), but this time I wouldn't call him wonderful. Don't get me wrong, I like the guy and a lot of his movies, but this time he just fell short. His directing wasn't in his style and felt forced for me. But he also made some bold choices that were probably demanded by the studios, throughout the review you'll know what I mean. The visual directing was fine, it was a bit to dark for me. It wasn't always clear what was going on. The cinematography also was a bit on the same level of the directing not great not horrible. This was done by Roman Vasyanov, who has worked with Ayer before in his best movies (The previous named ones). But let's change things up with something really good. The soundtrack. Man this was maybe the best part of the movie. I didn't expect to hear "Seven Nation Army", but now that I've heard it in the movie I realize that it kind of fits. Same goes with "Bohamian Rhapsody" of Queen, which we had heard before in the trailer. This song was very well chose; it was chaotic, which complimented the movie very well. But these weren't the only good songs, of course. The styles of music changed a lot, but this was only to accentuate the chaotic feel of the movie. If Ayer had any involvement in this, than he did a really good job.
Now let's move on to something bad again. The editing. This wasn't always bad, but a lot of the time it was. The movie suffers from pacing issues and sometimes it feels like there was just edited a part out. For example: when Harley breaks the window and takes something, wherafter she walks away. After she has the little dialogue with Flag it seems that the scene ends, but it doesn't. There is just a brief shot of something else, but then moves on to Will Smith walking to the same thing to look at a jacket. This was obviously a re-shoot. That's also the reason why there was this editing mistake. I can't comprehend why you could let such a mistake slide in such a big budget movie. And this isn't the only editing mistake, but I'll quite there. I still have a minor issue to say and this involves the sound. This is just a detail, that I think could've easily been fixed. When The Joker and Harley are in the helicopter and are talking there is no sound whats-however of the helicopter, but in some scenes they thought of adding the helicopter sound. So why not here?
The acting was very well done. I think that the actors were all well cast and fitted them well. I'll just talk about a few of them, due to the word limit. The first one I want to talk about is Will Smith. I was very skeptical when he got cast, because he is nothing like the character Deadshot, but he nailed it. He was good in the emotional scenes (where a lot of them were re-shoots I believe) and also in the other. Margot Robbie is next on my list. Her portrayal of Harley was really good. It was like she was ripped straight from the comic- book. The only thing that I have to say about her is that her accent sometimes went away, but that's just a minor detail. Jai Courntey is also someone I quickly want to mention. I can't believe I'm saying this, but he actually was good. This is the first movie I've seen of him where he is good. If you want to hear something about Jared Leto as The Joker... I can't really say yet. I haven't seen a lot of him, but judging on the things seen, I can say he over-acted a bit, but was fine overall. A thing that I disliked about his character was that he was completely useless in the movie.
The writing is one of the bigger problems of the movie. The dialogue wasn't neccesairliy bad, but the story overall was. It was your cliché superhero movie, which ends with a generic bad guy and a laser beam pointing up in the sky. It's nothing new and it is told a billion times before. Almost all of the times it ended up with being bad, so why would it work now. The one-liners did work. They were funny and witty, but sometimes there were some cringe-worthy ones. The one- liners were mostly given to Deadshot and Harley: the stars of the movie. The characters were well developed, but how they were developed was not the greatest. They really push it in your face every time it happens they're like: 'Look sad things have happened to them. Now care about them.' But the only person that they kill of, where they want you to care about, wasn't well developed. So was the villain. There was no motivation for her to do these things, they don't even explain it. But how they introduced the characters was done in a fun way, but the editing was a bit sloppy there. And I don't know why they didn't introduce everyone of them. That didn't make any sense.
In the end I have to say that this isn't Ayers best film. It has a lot of problems, but the acting and soundtrack do carry the movie for a big part. Thats why I'm giving this movie a 6.4/10