Suicide at the Box Office

Rating: 3/10 (7 August 2016)

I like all kinds of movies, cheesy B films to Oscar winning. OK, very few romantic comedies, I usually don't like those. I liked Man of Steel and Batman V Superman. I go into a film with the mindset of how a film is marketed, as to how much of my brain to turn off to enjoy it. Now you know what level I'm on, I didn't like Suicide Squad.
With a very thin plot and even thinner characters, this movie does not live up to the hype. Will Smith brought his game but could not save the lackluster, boring film. Leto brought nothing entertaining to the Joker. Harley was the comic relief, even though what she said may have been funny in the right context, the lines were delivered at inappropriate times.
The pacing was awful, the characters were uninspiring, the villains were boring, the dialogue was boring, the whole movie was just pretty much a disaster. The people who put the trailers together know how to entertain. Unfortunately, the X minutes of trailers we got before the release were all the good parts taken from the movie. When those parts were put back in, they lost their luster.
Watch Deadpool or Guardians of the Galaxy again if you want to be entertained, this DC outing has nothing to offer. Both my wife and I did not enjoy this film. We dressed as Harley and the Joker for Halloween a couple of years ago, we won't be repeating that ensemble. On the flip side, our 12 year old son thought it was amazing. He also thinks $5 Hot and Ready pizza and Pokemon tournaments are amazing.
Watching Suicide Squad, I felt I was watching a generic, straight to DVD, rip-off of some recent Marvel scenes mixed with the original Ghostbusters. This is hard pressed to even be suggested as a rental. Hopefully WB will slow down and start doing things right. They have rights to something that can make them a contender, but not if they keep shoveling their ...stuff in the current direction.