An overblown action movie mess that is more focused on how it looks than how it sounds. The script is pretty lame; several times I cringed at how poorly the dialogue was written, and the villain - khm, villainess, an other-wordly entity called Enchantress, is clearly over the top, and cartoonish to a point. Whatever happened to good old fashioned villains of flesh and blood? There are a few scenes with Jared Leto's Joker and Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn that are more captivating than they have any right to be, but overall, the movie is at least twenty minutes too long. Will Smith brings nothing to the role of Deadshot, as the character could've been played by anyone, and the difference would've been negligible. All the bad guys (i.e. members of the titular so-called "Suicide Squad") are rather lame, and have none of the personalities to hold this storyline together the way a movie of this expensive of a budget should, but it is no matter. David Ayer's direction, and especially the script, is lazy and uninspired. But, with the movie's large box office intake so far, we can certainly expect countless sequels, prequels and spin-offs in the decade(s) to come. And they may not even have a script next time at all; just a series of shots that add up to two hours of running time, in which these people walk around arguing and using poor wisecracks to show us just how "human" they are. That scenario probably would've been better than this movie, if I'm being honest.
C-
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