Suicide Squad suffers from Zacification

Rating: 4/10 (5 August 2016)

Margot Robbie! TADA!! That should have said it all. That should have been the one thing that mattered. After the masterpiece trailers showed just how great she was as Harley Quinn, I knew I was going to see this movie. No one else, nothing else mattered. Harley is a sexy, twisted, bad girl that I know I would never get close to in real life. Thank God for fantasy out of reach in this real world. Thank Margot for her portrayal. I hope she gets a chance to take Harley on again.
You can thank someone else for the fact that even Robbie could not save this perfect example of a typically poorly directed super-hero style movie. While Harley had me glaring at every move she made for the first half, she lost her allure in the second half as she became less appealing. The whole movie seemed to have lost its character in the second half. Joker was not needed. 11 minutes of gratuitous joker seemed a waste of time and I feel his presence dulled the movie. Yeah, Leto put a lot into the character but, for what? I imagine his absurdity is what softened the impact of the other characters. All of the characters were interesting but not so desirable as Harley Quinn. And while I am at it, Amanda Waller was bad-ass enough, but she had to destroy her employees? WTH? Totally uncalled for. Sure it's only a movie, but that move made no sense.
My suggestion is to accept the fact that any movie that has Zac Snyder's name connected to it is going to suck as in Sucker Punch and everything else he touches. If you want to see Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, even for only the first half of the movie, then you should go.
When DC and Warner realize how shallow Snyder's movies are then they might be able to get on track for quality movies. I just have to wonder if Snyder is so lacking in personality himself that he does not understand how lacking his characters are in his movies? (Yes I know he was an executive producer). Maybe DC and Warner should give total control to Chris Nolan.