Almost as disappointing as getting no presents for Christmas!

Rating: 4/10 (6 May 2017)

Suicide Squad
Oh boy, so where do I start with this one? Imagine being a child on Christmas morning hoping that Santa had left you a new bicycle only to find that instead you had been gifted with a nice large lump of coal! That was the immense disappointment i felt after watching this movie. The build up, the teasers, the promising cast. The acclaimed director... Then the eventual end product. A miss mash of ideas. The stupid storyline, the choppy editing. Suicide Squad is all of the above things and more. A wasted opportunity. Such a great concept. The most notorious villains forced to work together to save the world. I won't go into too much about the storyline but I will say it's ludicrous! Giving the rag tag team a real world situation to deal with would have been a much more satisfying movie. I understand that the whole idea is that the world needs an extraordinary set of people to deal with extraordinary threats. But this was like some Ghostbusters spoof made by fanboys. It was hollow. Forgettable and poorly made. No matter how much CGI polish is sprayed on to the movie screen it can't hide this. The villains look as though they were lifted from an old episode of the Power Rangers. All costumed up with tinsel and plastic. Cara Delevingne's Enchantress goes from looking like a belly dancer who has fallen on hard times to some sort of evil sorceress. I swear she spent the second half of the movie looking like she was hula hooping or that someone had poured ants down the back of her knickers. She does this weird twisting and contorting throughout the film which becomes really annoying. The cast though is the saving grace of this movie. Margot Robbie is absolutely superb as Harley Quinn as is Jared Leto's brief appearance as the Joker. I say brief. Don't go into this movie thinking you're going to see a Joker filled fun fest. He gets about as much screen time as Godzilla did in his recent outing. Will Smith as Deadshot is Will Smith playing Will Smith as usual. However he does bring a level of charisma to the movie like only he can. Joel Kinnaman is as robotic as he was in Robocop. Leaving Jai Courtney to challenge Margot Robbie for the scene stealer award. There's an encounter or two with The Batman. Ben Affleck is filling the shoes of Christian Bale as best he can. There's also a dude who looks like a crocodile which sucks for him. The movies climax is really poor as are many a scene that give the impression that they were just tagged on Examples being Harley's elevator fight and the bar room scene. I really didn't like this film and I am a fan of the genre. Movies like the Avengers, The Dark Knight and Logan show what can be done with a good script, good director and a talented bunch of actors. This movie had two out of three of those but fails miserably. Too many moments that leave you tutting at the screen. One example when all The Suicide Squad are battling the Enchantress. She gets caught up in a fist fight only to the say "Enough!" and magically disarms them all. If she's so powerful why would she lower herself to the level of bar room brawling? I could go on but I'll just come out and say it. This film was crap! A real disappointment.
DC you are going to have to up your game big time. Compared to the quality of the movies Marvel are making you have a long long way to go.