A very disappointing, but still entertaining summer feature

Rating: 6/10 (22 August 2016)

When I first saw the 2015 Comic Con trailer of Suicide Squad, which included the Bee Gees song I Started a Joke, I thought that this is going to be an excellent blockbuster DC film. After I heard the reviews about it, my expectations fell down to a very low level. The fact, that David Ayer (Fury, Sabotage) is in the director's chair, and Zack Snyder's (Batman v Superman, 300, Watchmen) participation as an executive producer also worried me. I doesn't like his movies movies, especially not 300, which I think a highly overrated history film, compared to Ridley Scott's Gladiator and Wolfgang Petersen's Troy.
I watched Suicide Squad in IMAX3D just a few hours ago. Let's start with the few good things. Overall, the movie is entertaining, and you not getting bored for even a minute. The visual effects and the soundtrack are amazing. Margot Robbie acts very well as Harley Quinn, except her fantasies, that are completely not matching with the plot. Viola Davies also pretty good as 'the Boss'.
There are plenty huge mistakes in this film. The script is a hilarious mess. The characters are extremely underdeveloped, but what should we expected if all of them one by one would need a single movie? The direction and the visual style of this film are extremely awful. It can be clearly seen that David Ayer was a marine, just look for the precisely shot helicopter landing and departing. The actors are very bad, except the two of them which I mentioned above. Jared Leto is one of the most talented actors (watch Requiem for a Dream or Dallas Buyers Club), but his Joker is a disaster, if you saw the performances given by Heath Ledger in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight (2008) and by Jack Nicholson in Tim Burton's Batman (1989). The other actors also didn't brought even the minimum for their unwritten characters, especially Will Smith.
The DC's cinematic universe is heading down in a very wrong way, and it's sad that they can't see this in the studio. I really hope that 2017's Wonder Woman and Justice League Part 1 (featuring Zack Snyder as the director) will be much better than Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad. If you saw Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy or you had enough form the last three years DC movies you better avoid this picture. If you just want to a watch a summer action comic book movie, than you can give it a try, but don't expect a marvellous story telling or such an artistic director's vision than in The Dark Knight Trilogy.
6/10