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Rating: 3/10 (30 June 2019)

Where was the evil-ness????? even the intro credits had heroic music. i wish it had a more evil tone.
overall this was a bad movie. bad story, horrible pacing, bloated with needless characters. bad choppy directing. it also tried to add some humor and most of it not only didn't work, but felt very forced, awkward and out of place. some of the jokes were also very lame and cringe-worthy. i like when superhero movies have good comedy like most of the MCU movies, but it really isn't necessary. And I think they did reshoots where they added some of those comedic scenes, and a few times it really seemed like something was just added in the middle of the scene that didn't fit. i also thought the villain was forgettable. she was cool at times but really she was pretty weak (figuratively)
there were so many useless characters, actually most of them. i really only liked the joker, harley quinn and deadshot. i loved harley quinn and i wanted to see more of her (figuratively). her character is very intriguing, evil and funny at the same time. jared leto had an interesting take on the joker, which i liked for the most part. he felt intimidating and psychotic in certain scenes. the problem was he was barely in the movie. also, his introduction was non-existent. we are seeing a new actor play the biggest Batman villain, there should have been a build up or some anticipation when we are about to see him for the first time. but they just cut to a scene with him talking to Harley at a table. such a wasted opportunity. for reference, remember the introduction to the joker in the dark knight? that was AMAZING and unforgettable.
the other really disappointing thing is that the action was very useless. coming out of the movie i can't think of one action scene that stood out. they had a few cool slow motion moments but creative action was non-existent. after watching it a second time, i conclude that none of the action in this movie is good. it is horrible. i could pick 100 action scenes from the different marvel movies that are better than any scene in here. and that's not an exaggeration. i wanted to see them work together. but they didn't work together at all, in a sense of using each other's skills in combination, etc. the only used actual teamwork one time in the entire movie.
i was really into the first 30 minutes-ish of this movie. there were lots of cool scenes and i liked learning who the characters were and what they were about. but then they kept adding more characters as the movie went on, new characters i had no interest in, while also taking up any time the original characters would have had to be developed. and some of the lines in this movie are laughable. there are a lot of questionable parts and things you can make fun of for not making sense. this movie was a huge disappointment. i could have fallen in love if it was done right.
at least this movie gave me a new awesome song: Heathens by Twenty One Pilots. good for you, movie. (2 viewings)

SPOILERS

the end battle with the huge world destruction is becoming a very typical of DC movies. it's like a normal thing now. the funny thing is, it's so commonplace that they actually had a montage of world destruction not even halfway through the movie. as if the city getting destroyed isn't a big thing any more, let's just sum it up really quick with some good music.
something that really bothered me is one of many scenes that were choppy. flag takes june to her brother, they don't say why but i think everyone assumes she's there to stop him. it then immediately cuts to him saying she bolted. wasn't sure why that happened. and even thought it was "explained" later, it still could have been done better. the real problem comes later in the movie with the "reveal" of what really happened. but the only real difference is that they showed a bomb they were going to use to kill the brother. everything else was basically the same so they didn't really tell us anything new. so why replay all those scenes again as if we need to understand what really happened. when they started showing it again i was excited to see what really happened but it was nothing. smh
so many times they show the enchantress destroying stuff across the world, satelites in space and around america using completely destructive beams. but then she fights her enemies with swords and fists. so many things like this make no sense. the mind control stuff was such a weak attempt. and the way they kill the big dude and end the final battle is so lame. basically just explode it. so why couldn't that be done in a million other ways. it was never mentioned that they need to get close to blow it up. and to kill the enchantress, they basically just tricked her cause she's really dumb. pretend to be on her side for 5 seconds then slice her while saying one of the worst lines in the movie: "There's just one teeny problem, you messed with my friends." Heart slice, game over....... lame over. omg and let's not forget the laughable scene when the black chick kills all of her innocent employees. lolololol. i just convinced myself to drop it from 2.5 to 1.5. I was only gonna go down to 2.0 but there is just too much bad and very little good in this movie
the batman cameo was exciting.