Suicide squad : Hit and miss

Rating: 5/10 (8 December 2018)

Suicide squad (2016) was the third installment for the DC extended cinematic universe connecting with Batman V Superman : Dawn of Justice (2016), would have been an amazing cinematic experience seeing it's cast, budget and crew but sadly it's a hit and miss. And also story wise.
The story is flat and unemotional. The DC extended universe did the same mistake with Man of steel (2013).
There is soo much explosions and gun fights but no real experience. Only thing that keeps the film running is Will Smith's Deadshot performance.
And after Heath Ledgers master of a performance as Joker in The Dark Knight (2008), Jared Leto was expected to with a higher benchmark.
Since he is extremely talented and the teasers showed a different joker, expectations of the fans were extrelmely high.
Sadly we have 10 minutes of an idiot of a performance, he is more of a gangster than a mastermind criminal sociopath we see in the Joker character arc in the comics, cartoons and past films.
Harley Quinn by Margot Robbie was highly anticipated but also less performed. She's too funny and less action.
David Ayer is a good director. Harsh times (2005), Street Kings (2008) and End of Watch (2012) are really good films.
Sabotage(2014) and Fury(2014) are made in the Suicide squad formula reflecting on a set of different character arcs working together to a common goal, which makes the viewers expectation for Suicide Squad extremely high.
But sadly like "Sabotage(2014)" this fails spectacularly.
The connectivity to the DC Extended universe is the other only thing that kept the film alive.
Overall - 2.5/5