My Suicide Squad Review - I'll say it, Its Fantastic

Rating: 2/10 (4 August 2016)

I want to start off by saying I went into this movie with pretty high but also controlled expectations with all of the negativity surrounding this film and I came out of this film and well I thought this film was awesome. Is action packed and just fun to watch. I don't get the very sting negativity toward this film and I just hope people will go and see it regardless of what the critics say.
Lets start of with the positives, the Squad members and their chemistry is great. From Will Smith's Deadshot to Margo Robbie's Harley Quinn to Diablo and Killer Croc and Jai Courtney is great(for once) as Captain Boomerang. They all have their moment to shine from just a funny joke to being a complete bad ass when you don't expect much from the character(Diablo was a standout). Will smith as Deadshot was fantastic and I knew he would be good but was worried he would try to make it the Will Smith show with some guys in the background and surprisingly enough he actually shares the screen and doesn't try to take away from anyone else. Margo Robbie as Harley Quinn, Not since Robert Downey Jr. Has there ever been a more perfect casting of a character that perfectly embodies the character as Margo Robbie does as the Clown Prince of crime's girlfriend. She was amazing and and was a big stand out. But you already knew that from the trailers. Let's talk Jared Leto's Joke, is he the best joker ever? How does he compare to Heath Ledger and Jack Nicolson? Well the best thing I can say is he's different and in a good way. He's doing his own thing taking different and is a more modern take where he's this mob boss, gangster-type clown that everyone is terrified of. Every time he shows up I felt very uncomfortable. That's all I can ask for from Joker so he succeeded but I'm not ready to say he's the best. But he is great. Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, the woman who puts the team together, is just a straight up bitch and that's really the best thing I can say about her. I hated her so much but your supposed to and what she does really makes you sympathize more with the squad and root for them. The man in charge of leading the team is Joel Kinnaman's Rick Flag, I was actually really surprised how much I enjoyed the character and Kinnaman's performance.
Let's get to the action cause this is something that I heard was one of the issues going into the movie especially the climax which someone made comparable to Fant4stic's climax in 2015. I'm happy to say this is something I disagree with. The action in this film is fantastic especially in the climax.
The storytelling of certain characters though flashbacks worked for me. I had a problem with the storytelling/editing in BVS it went as far as ruinous to the theatrical version . However the way they showed certain characters as what they were as opposed to now I actually thought worked and added more to the characters. I think they could have been done better but I think they worked in the context of introducing how the characters got imprisoned.
Now let's get to some of my issues with the film. All movies have them and let's start with the villains, for a movie where the Director went out of his was to show off that DC has the better villains he sure failed at giving us a compelling villain for the squad to go up against. Now not to say the villain ruined the movie but the villains and what they trying to do isn't very interesting and just sort of happens. And with the villain comes the mission. It's just not as interesting as I had hoped but the squad' back and forth make up for it. My other big criticism with the film is the soundtrack. I felt they just threw in a song every other scene and I felt it undermined Steven Price's score, which was fantastic because WB or Ayer were trying to make a memorable soundtrack like Guardians of the Galaxy's (sorry to bring up Marvel) I enjoyed the music but I think there should have been far fewer songs and more score, it's a great score. I loved that theme and so disappointed they kept playing rap music when the theme should have been playing.
Guys I had a blast with this film. Ayer nailed these characters where Snyder wanted to change characterizations, which is fine but it's refreshing to see a DC film where they got these characters right. They got Harley Quinn right, they gave us compelling characters with Deadshot and El Dioblo. I thought Croc and Boomerang were funny. Joker?, yes he's doing his own thing but he's Joker not this Jason Todd Bullsh*t, Red Hood re-imagining that a fan got from playing a video Game. He creeps me out and made me uncomfortable with what little scene he had and that's all I can ask for after Ledger and Nicolson. The villain yes is not good yet I enjoyed the "swirling trash in the sky" action sequence. The action scenes involving the villains were great. Yes, Even the issues I have, have redeeming qualities to them.
I'm going give Suicide Squad a 9/10.