Not Bad, Not Great, But Good Enough

Rating: 7/10 (7 August 2016)

K, here it goes. I liked it, I didn't love it. It's a 6.5/10 for me so I'll round it up to 7. Technology wise, the CGI was pretty bad on the Brother, he looked like an orange Electro from ASM2. I get that they didn't have very much time for character development, so they tried the Guardians of the Galaxy thing and do character development through music, which became messy. It worked in Guardians because they were using different songs to develop one character so there was a continuity of style. Here they attempted one song per character and there were so many characters it felt disjointed. I really like the graphic intros to the characters but I felt either you do them all or none of them. I wanted to see the Slipknot and Katana little baseball card thing. Enchantress needed more clear motivation, she was such a generic "I want to destroy everything and rule the world!!" Character with no passion behind her. It would have been more interesting if she were making this a purely personal attack on Waller. That would have been easily done. I do miss the concept that I originally saw where enchantress' machine was opening a wormhole for Parademons. I liked all the performances, I liked Joker much better than I thought I would. Harley was great, except for the bar scene where she fell flat, something about her delivery just didn't work there. I like that they didn't make Croc a stupid brute. He was intelligent and funny. I even liked Jai Courtney, I hate him in general as an actor, here he was pretty good. Deadshot, wasn't bad enough. I wanted him to be more of a cold blooded killer. The best character with the most depth and a great subtle nuanced performance was El Diablo. Jay Hernandez was fantastic in the role, he was the most real out of all of the cast. Viola Davis was bad-ass, as always. Rick Flagg was just American Soldier template #23 I really didn't feel he had any reason to even be there. The batman stuff was cool and the flash scene was a nice surprise. Overall I had fun, it was a definite improvement on BVS, it's not bad, it's not great it's good, and that's good enough for me.