Mindless nonsense

Rating: 2/10 (7 August 2016)

DC is in a bit of a bad spot right now. After the colossal backlash to 'Batman V Superman' they decided to put all their eggs into one basket. That basket being 'Suicide Squad'. I'm gonna say it right now. If this movie represents the DC movies we are going to get in the next few years, they need to quit now. Because this film is quite honestly one of the worst comic book movies I have seen in the last decade. Now, I have something of a rep for hating on the Marvel films. But nothing they have made even comes close to the garbage fire that is this movie. But lets start at the beginning. The film opens with Viola Davis at a meeting with a couple of expendable government dude bros.
She sits them down and tells them that she wants to gather a group of bad guys together as a silver bullet just in cause something really really bad happens. And what do ya know? Something really really bad happens. The rest of this movie. I'm not joking when I say that this is on the same level as last years 'Fant4stic'.
There is so much wrong with this film that it physically hurt to sit through it. Unfortunately I didn't realize this earlier or I would have walked out of the theater. And I have never walked out of a movie in my life. But I should've seen it coming. Because right away, it's bad. The first twenty minutes of the film are filled with exposition dumps the likes of which I have never seen.
Viola Davis's character literally sits at a table and tells a couple dudes the names, abilities, and backstories of almost all the villains featured in the movie. Twenty minutes of nothing. Twenty minutes of time wasted on something that can effortlessly be written into conversation through out the movie. And that's the biggest issue with this film. ​ The writing is so incredibly awful. Not only can Ayer seemingly not write a convincing character but he can't even write a coherent story. This movie is all over the freaking place. First they get the bad guys together to stop some glowing Egyptian dudes but not really. They actually go into some rando building to do a thing that makes no sense. And along the way they get into slow mo fights between literal piles of trash.
Then they have to go do something else and then something else. Completely ignoring the orbital drill plunging into the sky, which may as well have spelled doom in mid air. As they went about doing nothing the film attempts to give them some shred of personality by force feeding us through flash backs. At completely random times someone would just have some stupid flash back that was irrelevant to anything happening.
It was moments like these that made the films re-shoots glaringly obvious. There are scenes that come out of no where and as soon as they finish the movie gets going again. Like a scene with Harley Quin fighting trash guys in an elevator. She fights these nothings and then an actual story scene happens. Or in the subway scene when army man gives creepy girl a bomb and she arms it and takes off. The army man said it had a 2 second timer but it doesn't go off. She arms it, leaves, the timer shows one, and the scene cuts away. Everyone is fine and it's never brought up again.
This happens so much through out the film it's painful. They just have flash backs and fight scenes for no reason at all. And whenever one of these fights comes up it's impossible to tell what is going on. The direction and editing is so choppy that things and people seemingly appear out of no where and sometimes just disappear again. Without the excessive use of slow-mo these scenes would be nothing more than shapes and colors moving around on a screen.
I have so many problems with this film that it's impossible to put them all into a short review like this. The only reason I don't give this film the lowest score I can possibly give is because the cast gives solid performances. That is it. Every other aspect of this movie is utter nonsense. The story is all over the place, the characters are flat as boards, it's horribly unfunny, the direction and cinematography is by the numbers, and every ounce of logic seems stripped away. Not to mention how bad the soundtrack is. It cuts from pop song to cookie cutter nonsense from scene to scene, not caring about what the context of the scene is. 'Suicide Squad' wastes it's talented cast and will waste two hours of your life if you bother to see it.