Really Poor

Rating: 3/10 (28 November 2016)

I might throw some spoilers at you, but I will pretty much accept you know the overall concept and kind of focus on why this movie missed so badly.
I believe the main reason this movie misses is that they guys behind it just didn't get it. They weren't fanboys, they were movie makers with a job to do. No love, no insight, just standard by the number thinking pervades this movie. They also failed to step up their game relative to Marvel and the Superman reboots. The quality of the Avenger as a group movie just made Suicide Squad seem behind the curve.
I can tell you if Marvel was doing this movie, it would have begun completely differently: it would have started with building the Enchantress backstory in ancient Aztec times, thus giving her status and purpose as a massive enemy. What do you gain by seeing Batman round up Deadshot and Harley? And then fast-forwards though every one else? It eats up time with a bunch of stereotypes. And the music - WTF - the same lame guys behind the movie - a bunch of middle-age Jewish guys picking music that they think is 'cool' or edgy? Eminem? seriously? Just horrible.
So, the story starts with long drawn out clichés to get us to part two - put the squad in action. Here is where a comparison to Marvel is inevitable. The Avengers was based on grandeur and big thinking. Nick Fury's flying aircraft carriers, Tony Stark's awesome labs, portals to other dimensions. In suicide squad, for some reason, we take a helicopter ride to some city, land in the street and walk. Where Captain American is whipping his shield and Hulk is smashing and Thor is wielding his hammer...we get a guy shooting a gun and Harley with a baseball bat. The whole set reminded me of Racoon City from 15 year old Resident Evil. Even the enemy: soldiers turned into Goo Zombies who pour down the street to get batted and smashed and shot it was dead on Resident Evil. Weak. Very Weak. Nothing Epic.
And our team of heroes, just a bunch of guys walking down the street, none of the epic battle sequences that at least Man of Steel / DOJ understood they had to emulate (Ironman upped the game on CGI mega-punching). Nobody does anything cool. Nobody is bigger than life. (OK..Diablo does eventually step up a little with some fire power).
I won't complain about any of the acting here, beyond Harley's strange Brooklyn accent (since she is from Gotham). I think the characters were so badly constructed the actors did what was expected. Leto's Joker, lauded by some, didn't seem beyond what any other actor would have done with the character as per this movie.
All in all, a visionary could have rethought this movie into something more spectacular, instead we got a step back to something that seemed far behind the cutting edge.
Too bad.