Ok movie that was jacked up just to get PG13

Rating: 4/10 (21 October 2019)

This could have been a great movie but the problem is that they insisted that they get a PG13 movie. They wanted a "family" movie. Nothing about the context of this movie fits into a family movie. If your familiar with the original backstory for the characters in the movie it would have been a very dark, black, and HARD R rating at best. There was loads of R rated footage shot but the director always intended for the movie to be a PG13 movie at most, and the studio forced an even softer PG13 rating for there. They think they'll get a wider audience and more ticket sales with a softer rating but it has been proven time and again that harder rated superhero movies actually do better. You want say that Marvel / Disney doesn't do R and they sell a ton of tickets. But Marvel kills WAY more people than DC, they just don't use language or show blood. Beside DC has ALWAYS been darker, and dare I say more realistic. The problem with Suicide Squad is from the start they were more insistent in getting a PG13 rating and toning evening down so much that even a prime time broadcast TV show shows more than Suicide Squad. Even the (unrated) "Extended Release" is basically still PG13 and it STILL strips all the life and story out of the movie and leaves it a confused, disjointed, mess of a movie. All the needed footage to make this an 8 or 9 out of 10 was shot and all we can HOPE is they make a fan version of this, since even the director was more concerned about the MPAA rating than telling an authentic story. Even the closing music on the unrated extended release has been censored! Why even use that music to begin with then. It's so obvious what they're saying when even edit it, for credit music, on an unrated version. Why? This is a dark story, that is even darker in its original form; and they insisted in watering it down to try and offend the least amount of people possible. You just pissed off all the people that love the original characters and story. And the goody goody people people are still offended because it's still not family enough and they know what you were editing out anyway. So you're left with a 6/10 movie that could have been 8+/10. Here's hopes the sequel which is taking 4 years for what reasons isn't done the wrong way again, for the same wrong reasons. I can easily saying the studio won't give you enough budget for the sequel because the first film didn't do well enough. Why. The director watered it down till there was nothing left for the sake of a rating and the studio watered it down even further. This is NOT family water, and MOST of the DC Universe ISN'T family material.