It didn't annoy me

Rating: 5/10 (9 October 2016)

I kind of wish I had seen this when I was still 14. I used to like the movie 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' (2003) back in the days, and 'Suicide Squad' (2016) reminded me of how much better action movies were when I still had low standards on awesome.
Suicide Squad is clearly a kids movie aimed for kids. Should it be rated and reviewed as such? Not everyone who sees this is a child nor will they view it as a kids movie, so I guess it is not relevant. I would like to compare this to movies that weren't so clearly kids movies, though.
Suicide Squad was a smarter move than the new 'X-Men: Apocalypse' (2016). It was better written and more mature than 'Man of Steel' (2013). It surpasses even Marvel movies, such as 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' (2016) and is better than any Captain America movie ever made. Including the new 2016 movie.
Suicide Squad suffers from several problems. Which all can be referred to with the word 'bad'. Bad writing, bad directing, bad pacing, bad characters and an OST which is a total mess of meme songs everyone has heard billion times before.
Every superhero movie seems to suffer similar problems more or less. The main difference being that some have flaws, superpowers and characters more annoying than others.
Suicide Squad is a very mild take on everything. It doesn't have strong moralities or pseudo-deep reasoning, tragic past-stories, terrible parents nor villains who are so evil they have to go and kick puppies in their free time. It didn't try to be good, and that is definitely something superhero movies generally lack as they are never really good, but still try so hard to be. And that's why Suicide Squad is better -or at least less annoying- than most superhero movies.