Big budget fair movie

Rating: 7/10 (8 August 2016)

Ayer simply asked a group of professional actors dressed like Suicide Squad to walk along the streets. He degraded high potential materials to a pure cosplay show. The different plots in the film fail each other. If you got a bomb in your body, the plot to unite got no tension. Then, after relaxing in a bar, they unite. They are cool bad guys, they don't unite! They do bad things to portray their characters in comics instead of telling embarrassing jokes and cosplay. Torn between these are some helicopter crashes. Nothing major really happens for a mid-climax. You at least need a 15 minutes sequence of action instead of several 2 minutes action scenes like interruptions! The tension just lost. And Jared Leto's Joker is outstanding and unique. How come you hire talent like Jared Leto to portray such a complicated character but only gives him 10 minutes? Is it an audition ? Actually all actors perform well but the production team put them in a plot that got no chance to show off. For BvS, it clearly got a theme and direction to move on even it may not please the mass market. Suicide Squad is a messy talent deployment. It is clearly not an commercial action flick but also got no clear theme.
The response of this movie is a final warning to Warner Brothers. I truly think that they should shut down all productions including Wonder Woman and sit down to rethink the whole strategy. No reason to rush in a wrong direction. Besides, do they recognize that the reverse approach from Marvel makes you losing audience who does not read comics ? Most film lovers in Asia only know Iron Man from RDJ. There were enough Superman and Batman movies in history providing enough background information. But other characters really need deeper portray to secure audience before pushing all super hero on stage in a united team.