Entertaining, but poor in usual fundamentals

Rating: 6/10 (5 August 2016)

First off, this movie doesn't shine at all in terms of physical aspects, or even other elements that usually constitutes a movie that gets high ratings all around. There isn't much to say about the cinematography, the editing is distracting at times, the plot is second-rate, and more could have been done about the setting. In essence, the movie can objectively be considered as 'shoddy'. But what saves it is its high entertainment value.
When it starts, everything goes well. The exposition sets up an anticipation that the next hour and forty minutes are going to be a blast. However, the first act ends and the zany plot begins almost instantly when the conflict and villain are simultaneously revealed. From then on, I still continued to thoroughly enjoy the movie, despite it abounding with flaws and all.
The thing is that, to like the movie, you have to accept the silly premise and realize that it's purpose wasn't to become a celebrated film, or even a great blockbuster of the year. It's about a team of assembled "supervillains" taking on a crazy supernatural entity laying waste to the city. The story and pacing make for a refreshingly simple action picture from what we've come to normally expect from most recent movies - including comic book ones - that must always be fixed with some contrived narrative. So you have to sort of dim your brain, in a way. If you look at the movie subjectively, it could be looked at as being "good" akin to certain movies like the 2012 "Dredd" or something (except maybe with worse direction).
Now even with that, other problems still affected the final outcome of "Suicide Squad". I felt that the characters needed to be more fleshed out and given depth, rather than having a cast of personalities we don't even know working together. Some characters with the highest potential like Joker, left us ambivalent about him due to his minimal screen time. The build up of the movie could also have used work, as it felt that the climax already started near the beginning without getting our feet wet first with the ensemble of bad guys.
It's quite hard to justify why this movie gets a "6" with all these faults, but it mostly comes down to this: you can choose to enjoy it or not, and when you do, it definitely has a certain charm.