Okay, saw Suicide Squad.
It's not just bad, but it's really frustratingly bad because it could have so easily been amazing. I actually liked most of the cast. Deadshot, Harley, Diablo, Flag, Boomerang, even Crock were all great. Enchantress started out cool but went real bad real quick. Didn't much care for Joker to be honest. He felt more like a collection of Joker mannerisms than an actual character.
But the writing, directing (yes, I'm blaming the director for this, not just the studio) and the whole editing/structure....everything else was just painfully awful.
Just poorly developed everything and the actual directing itself was not very good. Some cool shots, sure, but I really felt like 90% of the shots were closeups, which was weird.
The ending was also just truly terrible. I feel like they said "Hey let's just do what FF did....people loved that, right?"
And the worst part? Googling that super hot girl who played Enchantress, only to find out she's blonde. Ewwww.
Eh. I felt like it's like if they someone was trying to make a cake and was told "A cake is just flour, sugar, eggs and butter" And the chef went like this
Well, we'll get the best butter....top quality flour and sugar, best eggs around......and to bake this cake, we'll use 30 cups of flour, 6 pounds of sugar, 1 egg and half a tea spoon of butter. What could go wrong?
Oh and for a finish? Let's just dowse it with maple syrup!
So much potential, and just such horrible execution. Real shame.
Few more thoughts: Jai Courtney is finally good. Will Smith has so much damn charisma that I'm not sure we can handle it. Amanda Waller might be the dumbest character I've seen in a long time. Just pure stupidity through and through.