Movie Review: Suicide Squad (2016)

The most anticipated movie of the summer is finally here for me. I just saw it this morning and...well, you know.....there's some good and some bad. Suicide Squad is a 2016 superhero film written and directed by David Ayer. The film stars Jared Leto as The Joker, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Will Smith as Dead Shot, Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang, as well as an entire plethora of other performances. The movie revolves around a woman named Amanda Waller played by Viola Davis who assembles a team of villians and escaped jail prisoners in order to stop this beam from shooting into the sky which is brought on by Enchantress. Okay so the movie opens and for the first fifteen minutes or so (in other words the very beg) I was enjoying this film. I thought it was in the very beginning a good movie. Then the second act begins and the film just derails. The movie suffers from tons of issues (ranging from pacing to editing) but I'll go through positives first. The performances (aside from Viola Davis who doesn't really add much to the story) are great. These characters are interesting and there's a lot of humor in this film that works very well. My issues with the movie are virtually everything else there is. This film cannot tell a coherent, logically assembled, or even interesting story. It flashbacked many times during the duration of the film and the main plot surrounding the beam through the sky...well...that didn't work for me. This movie gets very flat and dull in parts and there's not much else to analyze. I also have to mention that the violence gets way too over it's head. It's all over the top explosions, gunfights, and random flash sequences and the movie feels so disorganized that it's impossible to approach it from a logical angle. The plot is boring and it doesn't allow the roles to shine. There are some great characters here. I loved Jared Leto as The Joker and Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. Not to mention Dead Shot portrayed by Will Smith. The movie has good characters and it does not use any of it's possible strengths to its advantage. Overall, Suicide Squad is not organized, the plot is not clear and doesn't have all that much to it (leaving it somewhat flat and boring), and with over the top violence and action...it does contain great characters though. 1.5 stars