Ruined potential

Rating: 2/10 (11 August 2016)

They took what should have been great characters and villains and wrote a crappy script as if they have never seen or read anything with the actual characters before. It's like some big shot movie money investor gave them a one page description to sum up all the characters and that's what they went with. The Joker was horrible, Jared Leto was the worst Joker ever. Shaved eyebrows and tattoos?? And his smile was not a crazy grin like it should have been. He looked like Macauley Culkin from home alone and he sucked. And the relationship between The Joker and Harley was completely wrong. He manipulates her and couldn't care if she died in the least, but in this movie he's all about her. And even though Harley Quinn is a great character they couldn't get that right either. She is the Joker's sidekick. She is supposed to be Joker/card themed. That's why she has spades (like from a deck of cards) as part of her look. But in this she has some whored out baseball player theme?? So lame. And they tried to make her funny, but her one liners just fell short of the mark. Although she was one of the better parts of the movie. The plot was complete garbage. The final villain battle "climax" was pathetic. Just another of many poor choices and ruined opportunities. The DC universe has soooo many awesome villains they could have worked with and they put together this complete waste of time. Even all the members of The Suicide Squad (other than Harley) was basically changed into the same cookie cutter generic character of a goth, dark leather, tattoo, punk, biker wanna be, lame-ass. Deadshot, Harley and Waller were the only things that kept me from giving it a one star. But they were by no means great, or saved the movie in any way. And now this pathetic, lame, annoying, weak ass version of the Joker, with Jared Leto's shitty, method-acting bullshit is going to be in the Justice League. This studio needs to fire a lot of people and start over. I don't know how DC can make all their animated movies with such awesome plots and stay true to the characters, and then they just throw that all out the window and make a complete toilet clogging dump for the big screen movie.