An entertaining but messy film

Rating: 6/10 (13 August 2016)

I was super excited to see this movie, only to be disappointed. The good things about this movie are the portrayals of Deadshot, Harley Quinn and El Diablo. They were the highlight characters of the movie and the only ones given the spotlight. Well except El Diablo. I loved the humanity of Deadshot and the insanity of Harley Quinn. The action sequences were quite good. Only good. That's pretty much the only good things.
There are many bad things about this movie, and we'll start with characters and writing. Deadshot, Harley, El Diablo and the Joker are the only characters that I genuinely liked. Some of the others were useless to the plot and are given no character development.
Enchantress was a horrible choice as the villain, she should have stayed as part of the squad. The plot of the film is the squad being sent out to stop Enchantress from wrecking havoc in the middle of the city as she is busy making a weapon that will be used to wipe out mankind. No reason, no good enough reason on why. The reason Enchantress is a horrible choice is because she is an all-powerful witch with godlike powers. Considering how powerful she is, she is an unrealistic villain against the squad. Only El Diablo realistically had any chance against her. Had a better mission been chosen against a villain that could actually be taken down from this squad, this movie could've been better.
Joker was also a disappointment. I like the modern gangster take on him, but that's all he is in this movie. He isn't insane enough, and a force of chaos. Just a love sick gangster. His relationship with Harley also should've been a bit more abusive. His subplot in the film wasn't needed. Taking Joker out of the film, and keeping him in the flashbacks could've given more time on fleshing out the other characters. Hope they do better with Joker's character in future films.
The first half although better than the second, spent too much time explaining backstories of some of the characters through flashbacks. Bad characters, boring plot, wrong choice of villain and many writing and editing problems, rather than focusing on the squad working together and letting them be criminals who save the world by doing bad things for the government.
Other than that, an entertaining film but just a mess.