Hopefully a wakeup call for the DCEU's future.

Rating: 2/10 (4 February 2018)

Suicide Squad is fundamentally one of those "if done correctly" stories. Even before you embark on the journey this movie takes you on, you ask yourself "if the threat is so big, why not call any of the good guy superheroes in this universe?" And the movie struggles to answer that - instead elects to brush the question to the side with a mindless suggestion that the world needs a line of defense in case Superman falls out of line. The band of characters we follow throughout the story are remarkably unlikable and a handful of them are given virtually nothing to do in the plot. If you subscribe to the logic of "your movie is only as good as it's villain" you would certainly be right in the case of this movie because the threat that looms over the movie spends a lot of the time bordering between "immensely boring" and "logically ridiculous".
Suicide Squad also brings us the first live action film adaptation of "The Joker" since Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, and I don't think Jared Leto comes anywhere near matching the larger than life Joker portrayals we've seen anywhere in the past, quite possibly being the worst Joker we've ever seen in a movie. I don't want to write off Margot Robbie's portrayal of Harley Quinn however, with a proper script and story to fit into I think she can do Quinn justice. I wouldn't recommend checking this one out, it will surely be a disappointing film.