Have low expectations.

Rating: 5/10 (7 August 2016)

It was disappointing how much this turned into a superhero movie. Yes, it's in a superhero setting, but the plot felt way, way too much like a standard superhero movie. Now that doesn't make it bad, but it was advertised as something that was more like a satire of a superhero movie. As soon as I saw the lightning bolt going into the sky, I thought "Oh, not another one of those movies." The same shot and plot basis has already been in three major action movies of the last five years: Man of Steel, Dark of the Moon, and Avengers. It doesn't automatically make a movie bad, but there are more ways to make a plot be on a global scale than to have it almost get destroyed. Then to top that off we had the witch conveniently die without killing her host body and were given no explanation for this. Again, this isn't necessarily bad, it just comes up so frequently and wasn't what I was paying to see.
There were no disappointments to speak of with the characters, though. They aren't balanced great, but they all feel natural and get good performances. We only really care about Deadshot, Harley Quinn, and Flagg. Deadshot and Flagg both have someone they care about, which is always a good way of gaining access. We can sympathize with Harley a little because of how normal she used to be and how she hides behind her mask of false insanity. The other characters are just kind of there for fun, and to advance the plot, but they definitely make it better. My favorite was El Diablo, the quiet master.
There was a lot more action than I was anticipating. There wasn't any hint as to what the mission the squad was going to take in the trailers, so I was a little surprised when there was a whole military team fighting a bunch of zombies. Villains are at their best when they are confronting another character in a fight, which never really happened. Deadshot was easily the most formidable in a fight, followed by Katana. There is some debate about whether Harley was over sexualized, and I would answer with "yes, but not outrageously."
As advertised there was a decent amount of comedy. Will Smith was in his usual element delivering sarcastic lines with just the right amount of seriousness. The smaller parts like Killer Croc and Captain Boomerang had a few funny moments. Harley Quinn was supposed to be funny, but she ended up just being annoying, like that classmate you had to do group work with in school who makes lame jokes in a failed attempt to make things less awkward.
The script wasn't bad from a crafting standpoint. The exposition at the beginning was pretty good, giving us a sense of each character. The dialogue was decent too, and all of the actors gave good performances. Jared Leto's rendition of the Joker should not disappoint even when compared to Heath Ledger. He wasn't scripted as well as the Joker of the Dark Knight, but the acting was not lacking. The visuals were adequately amazing as expected, but a lot of the supernatural action felt like it was supposed to be part of a video game.
If you like superhero movies, this is pretty cookie cutter. If you are hoping that this will be the DC movie that is "different" from all those other super movies, you are in the wrong place. The trailers are accurate to content, but not that accurate to theme. I'm not really surprised that they concealed the big-scale plot in the trailers, because I don't think that's what people really wanted from this kind of movie. Overall Rating: 7.3/10.