Promsing start that fizzled out midway

Rating: 3/10 (29 August 2016)

I went into this open minded after the shocking sham of BVS: Dawn of Justice and was pleasantly surprised for a while. I enjoyed this and was generally fun but just pootered out leaving me feel kind of disappointed. All in all I was good. For me Margot Robbie did a fine job as Harley Quinn, Will Smith was so so and was basically the character out of I am Legend but with a costume. Jared Leto WAS indeed pretty damn good as Joker but little screen time - what you see in the trailers is pretty much what you get, give or take a few more seconds. Also didn't feel he really needed to be in it at all as his scenes seemed to be thrown in for hype value and didn't really pack a punch or follow the story. I feel he was only in it for bums on seats as non Batman/Squad/DC fans wouldn't know many of the other "Villains" if not any unless they read the comics or have played the Arkham games.
For me there was a wasted opportunity for a "WOW" movie and fizzled into mediocre by the end, HOWEVER, I will state it is a fun film if you can disassociate yourself from expecting anything ground-breaking- My main gripe was it was very similar to Avengers and ,if any of you have read it, The Ultimates. Evil force trying to eliminate the world via non-descript aliens/monsters to be foiled in the end by the crew etc. The final insult was too much screen time for Bloatman...I mean Batman/Affleck - I despise his acting and the fact he is cast as one of my favourite hero/anti-hero. Whoever cast him should be strung up from a tree.
Overall: OK for a wet Sunday afternoon film but not worth paying for at the Cinema.