So I saw Suicide Squad last Friday.
It's certainly not as bad as people are saying. Actually, pretty enjoyable. Just doesn't quite hit the mark. It's fairly generic in its story line, plot structure, and unveiling of the story. Lot of very standard action movie tropes. And that's too bad, because the characters are the cool thing here; more time should be spent on the development. But that's a big challenge since you have so many of them.
I think Jared Leto was great, but the scenes didn't work as well as they should have.. it's hard to say why. Everything with him felt very rushed. Actually the entire movie felt very rushed. Maybe a better director, or possibly cinematographer or editor, could have made it far better. At any rate, Leto's Joker felt truly insane.. he was the first live portrayal I've seen that was just crazy for the sake of being crazy.
It would have been cool if, before this movie, there was a Joker and Harley Quinn movie, like very dark and sinister, that focused on Joker corrupting her. Like it wouldn't have been some standard action/superhero flick, where there's an origin story, then an introduction of a big baddie (or maybe big goodie in this case), then a triumphant victory over the adversary, with some lesson learned along the way thrown in. Rather, a long psychological drama about descent into madness. And it would have been so cool if it was never advertised as a DC/comic book movie at all, but rather as just some drama about a psychiatrist and her patient.. like the patient is never seen in any preview/set pictures/etc., and even not seen for the first half hour or hour of the movie. Then there's a big reveal, hey it's the Joker.
Anyway, entertaining action flick, suffers from formulaic movie tropes, needed more character development, but hey go ahead and watch it anyway. Visually, it was pretty neat.
