Barely watchable

Rating: 4/10 (8 August 2016)

First off let me say that I'm not familiar with comic book stories. I used to have some comic books (mainly Superman, Batman and Spiderman) but generally I'm pretty casual moviegoer when it comes to comic book movies. If there's a comic book blockbuster that looks fun - I'm in. Plus I want to support interesting ideas, and judging Suicide Squad from its trailers and promo materials - it certainly looked like one. That's why I decided to go and see it, and boy was it an experience...
Good things:

casting was pretty much spot on (with one exception - check 'bad things' section). Will Smith as Deadshot is great, Margot Robbie gives over the top performance (that some people might find annoying/stupid, I liked it), hell, even Jai Courtney looked like he had fun portraying crazy Aussie Boomerang.

story line. Now, I don't know if this came from comic books 1:1 or what. I just liked the dynamic between unconventional villain and our 'heroes' who are also supposed to be bad guys

Enchantress moments. I loved the design of the witch, special effects of her transformations were awesome

Bad things:

Joker. This is the same problem that I had with Jessie Eisenberg in BvS - he's not crazy and menacing at all... Jared Leto's portray of The Joker is over the top, but in a goofy and laughable way, which, I recon, was not the general intention... As if this is not bad enough, almost ALL scenes with the joker were already shown in the trailers, what a joke :P

sloppy universe building. 10 seconds of Batman here, 5 seconds of Flash there, it's like those stupid videos in BvS, totally anticlimactic and useless.

PG-13 - so we have this pack of scum, thieves, assassins, crazy people, etc. Where's swearing? Where's blood? Where's something that would make the characters and this whole world believable?

rushed plot. This movie contains - brief story of EVERY suicide squad member, Enchantress betrayal, joker / harley quinn stockholm syndrome love story, witch plan to destroy humanity and suicide squad coming together to fight evil, few cameos (Batman, Flash), something about Superman... In other words - BvS syndrome - packing too much into one movie and setting up universe rather than concentrating on a cohesive story

too many dark stories from the past. Like that flame guy story, damn that was depressing.

weird plot twists. What up with that Indian guy who can climb easily and gets killed almost immediately after his introduction? What up with joker not dying (it's like they can't just kill joker, because he has to appear in the next 1000 DC movies, so let's just bring him back despite the fact that he DIED in that helicopter crash)...

camera work - action scenes are unwatchable. Shaky cams plus general mess of stuff flying in the air makes it pretty hard to see what's going on. You might say that it's a standard of action movies nowadays. For that I say - I don't like it :P

'team roles'. I understand the flame guy being in the suicide squad. I understand Deadshot. I sort of understand Croc. But what the hell would they need Boomerang and Harley Quinn for? Boomerang is a thief and throws boomerang = useless. Harley Quinn is crazy and can swing the baseball bat = useless. It's like if you apply logic to this movie - it doesn't work. The problem is - it doesn't work as a mindless fun either...

And the worst thing of all - the ending. Don't get me wrong, I was 100% sure that suicide squad will be a part of DC universe, but seeing them go back to prison and knowing that they are going to be used again and again and again in later movies feels so damn depressing for some reason...
All in all - Suicide Squad is not a terrible movie, but it's not good either. 5/10 :/