Muddled plot, muddled acting, muddled editing.

Rating: 2/10 (6 August 2016)

This is easily the worst movie I've seen this year. I saw Man of Steel, enjoyed it, Batman vs superman, enjoyed that too. This, this I could not enjoy. The editing is confusing at best, fight scenes make little to no sense, with quick cuts between the violence and characters witnessing it, leading to spatial confusion. People in the know would call this the 180 rule, and they break it, a lot. Moreover, the editors applied a LUT to the film in post. This is clear, as half the film has washed out colors, too dark blacks, and saturation that reminds me of watching movies on a TV from the 90s. What's more is that the acting is very hit or miss. Some scenes are basically Will Smith acting, and the others just phoning in their lines as if it were a rehearsal. Easily Deadhshot is the best part of this mess, as he was the only character even partially fleshed out, or even remotely human. Conversely the antagonist who is revealed during the film is even more of a cluster of confusion than most other aspects, at various points their motivation spans from wanting to destroy humanity for "worshipping machines" have mercy on the suicide squad as they are noble fighters, and make a zombie army for reasons I'm still not 100% on. Honestly as a film student I would expect better from another students film. Finally I would like to comment on Harley Quinn, while I am by no means a comic- fundamentalist, this Harley Quinn makes literally no sense, her backstory is explained in what was perhaps a 5 minute scene in which she falls for the joker and is tortured by him in various ways, again for reasons unexplained. Harleys on screen presence was relegated to either making quick jokes about the ensuing action, or to everyone's detriment, weird quirky "i'm so deep" comments, which will likely soon be sold on "Hot Topic" T-shirts across the nation.
All in all, Horrible film, don't see it, don't trust people who say its good. I love fun movies, I love comic book movies, I love basically all the Marvel DC lineup so far, and I would not hesitate to suggest 99% of them, even the more 'off' ones. This movie however, I would strongly suggest avoiding like the plague.