Makes me wanna commit SUICIDE via firing SQUAD

Rating: 1/10 (9 August 2016)

I don't know where to begin with, this, um... film? Oddly enough it too suffers the same problem; it doesn't know what it is or wants to be. You can liken its handling of story-telling with a bull in a china shop. But I may as well dig into the meat and potatoes of this "really, really bad" film.
One aspect often cited in praise of the film, are the performances and chemistry, notably of and between Will Smith and Margot Robbie. Smith is fine as the sharpshooter Deadshot, He's a roguish Will Smith, what more can I say. I feel Robbie put her all into the "deranged" Harley Quinn, but the writing for her character erred too much on the side of goofy, to be believable. And this goes for all the characters in the film really, they all have their one-dimensional, underdeveloped roles and any character attempting to be funny merely served as a one-liner dispenser and not a particularly good one. These are supposed to be despicable (soon to be reformed) "bad-guys" but their characters are so thin and underwritten that they end up coming off less intimidating than a door mouse. And when the film tries to hunker down (in a bar) to get all serious; it's so unearned, cartoony and cheesy, for there to be any emotional heft whatsoever, feeling more like a box to tick than an artistic choice.
The structure of the film is, by and large, the biggest issue. It's already been said countless times, but the editing was childish and amateur at best. the first half of the film serves as a consecutive set of trailers for presumably, better stand alone films. The sequences were littered with forced and ill-fitting songs whose soul purpose was to inject the film with character where the writing, directing and acting could not. The second half serves as a predictable low-stakes action film. It was filled to the brim with pointless, uninteresting antagonists, whose plan is just as flimsy as their dialogue; a ridiculous spectacle ending that made no sense and action sequences with pointless, faceless goons.
Sprinkled throughout were poor character development, bland expository dialogue and ham-fisted attempts at being emotional. It doesn't help when I'm taken out of the film every five seconds to think about the relentless amount of plot holes, contrivances, and continuity errors that could fill two small estates. The one saving grace was Jared Leto's silly portrayal of The Joker, who, while not getting the reaction from me Leto probably intended, had me sniggering all the way through his scenes. As for Viola Davis' Amanda Waller, well let me say the film is way out of her league; I think she'd be more intimidating in a better-written movie. Other than Leto, the film is a bore.