Senseless fun & entertainment with all of its rebellious action sequences.

Rating: 4/10 (5 August 2016)

Seeing the whimsical world and the flamboyant images mixed with the actual dour tone and the sense of fear coming right through you, I couldn't keep my eyes off the screen.
But there's one person who mesmerized me and told me to stay put, it's no other than Joker only goddess lover, Harley Quinn who was played by the famous Margot Robbie. I love her all the way, even my first thought to play Harley would be Emma Roberts, due to her bitchiness in every movie she's acted in. Margot enlightened the mood by giving every shot, the most prominent acting over all the celebrities they had in play. The childish side of Harley was apparently there too, which the only thing I hesitant about when they certainly picked Margot. No need to say more, again she did it! Nevertheless, between all the scenes she had on screen, which was almost in every part of the movie, the most perfect moment in my opinion was when Amanda emphatically asked Deadshot to shoot her after Joker has taken her alive while tangling around the rope joyfully saying goodbye, Deadshot intentionally missed the shot and Harley was playing dead. After a few secs, she swirled around and gestured, 'Ta-da!'. Oh my, I want to marry her now. No kidding, please!
Joker was the latter choice who stole the show last night. Unlike Heath Ledger's Joker who was extremely creepy and quiet, this new Joker was boisterous and fresh, giving audiences extra flavor to it. The best part about Jared Leto's performance as the new Joker would be the mischievous giggling. I don't know how he fortified his technique, but he managed to enhance the scariness in his mere giggling despite his 20 minutes screen time (He got cut, plenty of scenes, maybe to attract people to buy the extended edition in six months from now?).
Will Smith was good as Deadshot, it's just that the way he talked reminded me of his past movies. I love Jai Courtney as Boomerang! Many have I talked to claim that he didn't deserve any recognition in the latest Terminator, but I guess he has proved it wrong this time. His character as jinx and bogan attitudes who liked to drink lots and lots of booze suit his acting well. The new girl who held the role as Katana should give a standing ovation. If not mistaken, this was her first acting in Hollywood. Joel Kinnaman played Rick Flag as the daddy of them all, he's like the more aggressive robocop this time, and the only person that he really had a faith of trust was Katana. Killer Croc was scary, El Diablo stole the show when his hands were on fire but was bland, a man with chained-pyro abilities but afraid to use his power seemed kinda irritating at times. Enchantress, the ancient witch with a malicious spirit would scare some pants off and Amanda Waller occasionally forgot to take her meds (Watch the movie). Slipknot was the least good, he could only play with ropes and I didn't even know why he was there in the first place! Batman was on screen for 4 and a half mins total whereas Flash was in a hurry, 5 seconds estimation. The talented Scoot Eastwood was apparently just a soldier.
The computer-generated imagery was stunningly designed, just like the purple Lamborghini (C'mon Pudding, do it!). While all of this worked, they deliberately put an unforgivable plot. Most of the critics said was right, it's just too weak and unpolished. It put too many clichéd sci-fi in there, as a cinephile, I felt totally disappointed with it. No wonder most of the critics gave this movie rotten tomatoes. The action scenes began 10 minutes after they trekked into the city. I thought they saved it for the cool fight scenes, but I guess that also was intolerable as I was hoping more of 'em. But when there's Harley, there's action. The stunt was great, it's just that the pacing that wasn't. It's here and there, sometimes shaky even when it's supposed to be statically rigid. The non-stop soundtrack kinda stored most of the time, but a few of them were misplaced. The mid-credits gave a cliff hanger to the upcoming Justice League, a somber Bruce Wayne having an official chat with Amanda Waller.
The ubiquitous posters seem to give attention to people, don't forget the trailers too. But the plot immensely failed to give people justice. The demanded DC/WB companies, 'We're a big family, PG-13's would be the best for every movie in DC Universe.' was just unbearable, leading to many people aggravated and infuriated including me as it should have been rated-R (18 and above). In that way, David Ayer (director) would just do some of his clever stunts, due to his other movies that were rated-R. It would promise gory, bloody violence, grisly images, pervasive language and strong crude content as well as disturbing behavior.
The production of the film seems rushed with the questionable editing. As a whole, 7 minutes was cut proving from the initial 2 hours 10 minutes told by many reliable sources (IMdB, Wikipedia) but then was permanently said to be 2 hours 3 minutes. Even a few parts in the trailers failed to give extra trivial to the story such as the teaser trailer, when Harley Quinn offered the sentence, 'I hope we got insurance!' or when she's pointing horizontally her 'Good Night' tattooed baseball bat and mouthed her voice with the sound of a loading (Schuck-Schuck) shotgun or the play in the first official trailer when they were in the deserted bar and Harley said, 'I love this guy!'. There were so much of Harley and Joker's cut that shouldn't be done as it'd ruin the movie with the already weak plot.