My issues with Suicide Squad:
From the very beginning it comes across as a rushed mess. It's an origin scene with a 70's rock song recycled five times before we actually get into the story. There's way too many characters and the only one that gets even remotely fleshed out is Will Smith. The action scenes were trash. Jared Leto did well but got basically no screentime. The plot was predictable and the villains were awful and looked comically bad. There were several characters that could have been cut from the movie completely and it wouldn't change a thing. Killer Croc was only there to make terrible jokes. Harley was oversexualized and had no substance and was basically a bastardization of the great character from Batman TAS and the Arkham games. Batman was thrown into the movie for 2 stupid scenes where he does nothing simply so that they could say he was in it. The Flash cameo was cheap and pointless. The faceless henchmen get shot at by an entire military squadron and nothing happens to them, meanwhile Harley kills them by the dozen with a baseball bat.
I could keep going but man I just disliked a whole lot about it. Positives include some of the performances and humor but that's about it
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