A Bad & Boring Feel-Good Buddy Movie

Rating: 2/10 (12 September 2016)

If there ever was a lifetime achievement award for clichés , Suicide Squad can give many flicks a run for their money. Projected as new generation super-villain turned hero flick , this film does miserably in creating any credible impression at all.
Why? Let's start.
To begin with we have Harley Quinn, the show stealer in the promos. However, this "psychopathic b****" is actually paprika to the untrained eye- looks red but isn't hot. In fact even as I write this, I can think of far more demented bad girls in movies { think Famke Janssen as the cold psycho killing machine in Golden Eye ( 1995) or say Chiaki Kuriyama the teenaged lunatic in Kill Bill Vol I (2003) } . So the bar was really set high for Margot Robbie , and frankly she has been duped . Harley Quinn is neither scary nor demented. There are scenes where she resembles Charlie's Angels. The director pushes in the oomph factor and that's about it.
Next in line is a guy who starred in The Pursuit of Happiness (2006) and then for some inexplicable reason featured in movies such as After Earth (2013) and now this. He plays a super-hit-man . Now, you may have a few nasty things to say about Wanted(2008) but I confess , that movie with bullet bending calisthenics had a special appeal in the hit-man series.
Not taking too much space we have a bunch of other bad guys , harda*** who for some reason become self righteous buddies in a jiffy. Come on. This is unbearable and embarrassing.
The real bad guys in the movie are equally irritating , what with absolutely no novelty, brow beaten power surges, "magic" and silly costumes.
Last and definitely the least we have two extremely annoying characters " Amanda Waller"and "Flag" played disastrously by Viola Davis and Joel Kinnaman respectively. These two bring down the movie to a whole new level. They can be described as the antithesis of tough-no-bullshit hard**** guys/girls with a pretentious attitude.
OK, this is getting long. But a few words about the story. There isn't any. And if there is it is merely a subverted version of many "get the bad guys of the jail to fight for you classics" .
The actions sequences are boring ( many being funny one to one fist fights. Now, why didn't the witch use magic to annihilate these threats ??) .
The one-liners drab, the screenplay dusty. If you want my opinion please watch this movie only if you on a 11 hour flight and there absolutely nothing else to do ( and that includes visiting the loo).
I am giving it 2 for the movie's title . That is the only saving grace.