A wasted opportunity for DCs cinematic universe

Rating: 4/10 (25 July 2017)

I went into this film with reasonably high expectations (despite the fact that I generally dislike superhero movies) due to their predictable plots, 2 dimensional characters and cheesy jokes not to mention the reality that films such as this are being heartlessly made on a production line like canned food for profit not art as they should be. Anyway with that out of the way I thought "well its DC (my preferred universe over Marvel) and it seems to have interesting characters that I may grow to like throughout the film as they develop." I couldn't have been more wrong. The film opens with an extremely rushed introduction to the 'Heroes' or 'Villains' (however you want to look at it) with only a few minutes dedicated to an entire character we're supposed to like or at least like enough for the entire 2 hour run time (great). Overuse of popular songs in our introduction is an understatement (I thought I was watching countless music videos one after another, not an effective beginning at all). The tone of this film is all over the place one minute its light hearted and supposedly 'funny' and the next it cuts to the Joker shooting someone in the face for no apparent reason. Speaking of the Joker he could have been cut out of this movie and NOTHING would have changed. "But I wonder why he was on all of the posters and ads" you may ask, well I can answer that: MONEY! This goes for practically all superhero movies instead of making films that can stand on their own they need to connect to endless spin offs and sequels which some suckers will pay to see. The plot was another thing that didn't make sense Amanda Waller played by Viola Davis who created the 'Suicide Squad' was also the individual who caused the threat which caused the death of two members. The threat being the 'Enchantress' played by Cara Delevingne (who could not act or dance). Scenes seemed to flash backwards and forwards randomly and added nothing to the film. And despite the fact that this film was supposed to be 'Cool', 'edgy' and maybe kind of original we get the exact boring and pointless endings in many superhero films: the laser in the sky with the fitting "I'm evil and I want to take over the world" cliché. (another reason why I dislike these films). Another thing to add was the amount of awful looking CGI and bad villain soldier designs, for a $175 million budget! It is fairly obvious that I really didn't like this film but I will say that the concept was interesting if executed right, some of the flashbacks were intriguing- most notably the Jokers, the look of the main characters was fitting and the gritty aspects were nice. I just wanted those aspects and a coherent story with less characters so you'd have more time for the few therefore deeper and more meaningful backgrounds are established so you'd actually care when they died (or nearly did). If it was like 'Watchmen' which I thoroughly enjoyed and expected this to be it may have restored hope for DC and renewed my interest in superhero films as a whole. But I guess that was too much to ask....