Suicide Squad

Yes, Suicide Squad is as bad as critics are saying, but that doesn't exactly mean that it's completely un-enjoyable. Yes, it's a jumbled mess, but it's still fun for fun sake if you like that sort of movie. It's a good movie to shut off your brain for two hours and enjoy fun colors and familiar actors and loud exploding fight scenes-- don't expect much beyond that.

The biggest problem with Suicide Squad is that almost none of the character decisions make any sense. That, in conjunction with the plot being completely fabricated, unbelievable and totally avoidable, made the movie a little hard to watch from a critiquing standpoint. The other big problem in this movie was that I was expecting, from the advertising, that this was going to be a movie about the Suicide Squad vs. The Joker. Not the case. And once that was apparent to me, I was pretty lost. I wasn't sure where the movie was going to go and that feeling stayed with me through the whole movie. I was trying to enjoy this movie with a film of confusion underneath my initial excitement, because I was so trying to stay positive about this movie, but I was just confused throughout a large portion of this movie.

I'm sure much of my confusion came from the fact that there were a bunch of cuts and rewrites. There was that douchey guard that we heard nothing from or about after they left the prison even though the audience was teased with an interaction between him and The Joker. There was the fact that I had to clue their first excursion wasn't to go defeat Enchantress-- it was to get Viola Davis out of the bunker she was in. When they leave and start to fight the Enchantresses mutants (or whatever they are-- I think they were called 'shadow creatures') there is no indication that they are not going straight to Enchantress. The story wasn't told very well; it was choppy and confusing.
It felt like two scenes; Viola Davis introducing everyone to the audience, and then Suicide Squad in action.
In an effort to get everyone's backstory in, they just shoved exposition into a whole bunch of flashbacks. The problem with this is that there are flashbacks throughout the whole movie. We don't know anything about one of the characters and then at the start of the third act we get his whole backstory shoved into our faces in a totally unskilled way and its simply to make us care about his death that will happen 15 minutes after they tell us his back story. It just doesn't make the movie flow very well when introductions are going on well into the third act of the movie.
It was so generic-- which is saying something because so many of these characters are so far from generic, but the movie still managed to make this movie as along the typical lines of every other superhero movie we've seen as possible. I was shocked that a movie's composition that is so out of the ordinary, could have been compiled into such an ordinary movie.
The writing was just plain awful. There were there awful "one-liners" that were not good. At one point Will Smith is yelling at Enchantress and just yells, "She...is evil!" and then that sparks the rest of the Suicide Squad to fight harder against her or something? The lines that were supposed to initiate action just didn't do anything for anything. It was just bad writing.
It actually made me mad how unnecessary the Joker was. He could not have been in the movie and it wouldn't have made a difference. Going back to the re-writes and re-shoots, there was supposed to be a lot more Joker in this movie. In fact, in the trailers they showed clips of the Joker that had actually not even been in the movie. Apparently after his helicopter crashes he's supposed to meet back up with the Suicide Squad and confront them. Harley Quinn is then supposed to choose the Suicide Squad over the Joker-- and even if that did happen, the Joker is still pretty unnecessary. The Joker doesn't have any interaction with the Suicide Squad in the movie. It's just a reason to sell more tickets-- recognizable characters that were really compelling in earlier movies are a great way to sell more tickets. If you Google the movie 'Suicide Squad' the description literally says, "...Dubbed Task Force X, the criminals unite to battle a mysterious and powerful entity, while the diabolical Joker (Jared Leto) launches an evil agenda of his own." I am telling you right now the Joker has nothing to do with the plot of this movie.
Let's talk about Enchantress. First off, there was no real reason for her to be the villain. A huge flaw in the plot is that she only turns against humans because Viola Davis is using her to get the Suicide Squad project approved. So if Viola Davis never tried to gather the Suicide Squad, then Enchantress would have never tried to destroy the world. The point is there wasn't anything to actually use the Suicide Squad against until they started trying to create the Suicide Squad. I don't even know why the humans trusted her with so much because she didn't do one thing that would have gained their trust. Everything we saw of her she's unhappy or rebelling. Second, there is no mention of Enchantress in the Google description of the movie despite her being the main conflict. Third, it almost seems like the only reason they got Cara Delevingne to play Enchantress was so they could have a Victoria Secret model play the character that basically gyrates the whole movie half-naked.
The re-shoots and cuts were also so obvious. It was obvious that the "jokes" that were added were an afterthought. They didn't really fit in with the rest of the feeling of the movie. It was either super goofy and weird, or dark as hell and depressing. There was huge back-lash against Batman v. Superman because it was so dark which initiated the re-shoots of Suicide Squad-- but the thing is that Suicide Squad should have been rated R. It should have been really wonky and weird and screwed up. The characters and the situation certainly calls for it. I can't think of any reason it wasn't besides to appeal to a greater audience and make more money which is so stupid because it they made it a hard R movie, it would have made bank.

The more I think about Suicide Squad the less I like it. Right after I saw it I was in pretty good spirits about it, but now that I've gotten into it my official opinion is probably don't see this movie. It isn't good. Some parts are just cringe-y and the funny parts are not worth it. I think after this movie I am not going to see anymore DC movies; it just doesn't seem worth it, especially if they plan to advertise a different movie from what I will see.