For a SQUAD of an impressive-high-profile cast, not the best SUICIDE movie.

Rating: 7/10 (15 December 2016)

Initially stylish but ultimately ridiculous and chaotic, the DC comics-based adventure "Suicide Squad" also features some dubious moral values. Add to that the film's lurid atmosphere overall and its appeal, along with its appropriate audience, dwindles still further.
And then, straight out of left field, there's Katana (Karen Fukuhara), a lady samurai whose deceased husband's soul is trapped in her sword. For no very clear reason, she winds up tagging along on the quest to quell the Enchantress' sibling as well.
Writer-director David Ayer's film is barely passable while the action is chugging along. But scenes attempting to give moral shading to the characters -- and bonding them as a pseudo-family -- misfire completely. Viewers are supposed to be impressed by the fact that career hit-man Deadshot loves his young daughter, Zoe (Shailyn Pierre-Dixon), for instance. More persuasively, Diablo expresses his penitence for having misused the fire that shoots from his hands at will by refusing to employ this supernatural gift -- at least, that is, until the script really needs him to for the sake of an explosive finale.
If there's any good news to be salvaged from this mess, it's that casting Viola Davis as a tough-as-nails government bureaucrat works quite well. Davis plays hard-bitten intelligence agent Amanda Waller. Waller's pet project is the creation of the combat team of the title, an ensemble of violent villains she's determined to spring from prison and put at the service of the government.
Oh, did I forgot to mention, Margot Robbie? Come on, even the Joker fell for her surprisingly honest and accurate performance in this piece.
Overall, enjoyable indeed. But nevertheless, for a SQUAD of an impressive- high-profile cast, not the best SUICIDE movie.