J-Bang Reviews Present: Suicide Squad

Bruh. If you are planning to go see Suicide Squad, don't even bother man. Starring Will Smith, Margot Robbie, and (supposedly) Jared Leto, Suicide Squad marks the first super-villain led team up comic book movie, and even though it has a couple of highlights, the whole film ends up being a convoluted mess that can't decide what tone it wants to be.

Honesty, if I knew how to describe the plot of the movie to you, I would, BUT the funny thing is...I can't even find the plot of this film. Basically, Amanda Waller, played by Viola Davis, convinces the government to give her permission to create a team full of super-villains, that can perform black ops missions that involve other super-villains. One of my main complaints of this film is that everything...kinda, sort of...just.....happens. The whole story revolves around just ONE mission, and throughout the movie, characters give out clunky dialogue that is nowhere close to being cohesive with the pacing of the film. And out of the six members of the Suicide Squad, only Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn and Will Smith's Deadshot get the most exposure. With Harley and Deadshot taking up the most of screen time, we never really get the chance to care about the other characters. So when the movie is nearly over, and El Diablo and Harley Quinn starts spitting out motivational speeches about friendship, it feels forced and undeserved. Now don't get me wrong, Harley Quinn is one of the best characters to come out of this movie, and all her scenes with Jared Leto's Joker are surprisingly intense and end up being the best scenes of the film, but without screen time being equally shared among other characters, I begin to not give a shit when the other members of Suicide Squad begin to have a "moment." And the moment this movie TRULY shot itself in the foot was when they KILLED OFF the Joker!!!!!

Lol, JK,the Joker doesn't die, but it sure as hell felt like he did. Jared Leto was doing a great job of the Joker, but truly, ended up feeling like a minor distraction for the main characters of the film, instead of an actual adversary. The REAL adversary was just stupid and resulted in what I thought was a very lazy "Transformer-esque" final battle. Quite frankly, I rather this film had more Jared Leto, than more Will Smith, because it was evident and obvious through the editing that half of his scenes were cut out. I wasn't really into Deadshot's story arc throughout the movie and apparently, most of his lines felt forced instead of natural. 

Besides the visual effects and the stellar acting of Jared Leto and Margot Robbie, "Suicide Squad" tells a story worthy of being thrown in the TRASH. It provides plenty of goofy moments (not in a good way) that I'm sure Joel Schumacher would be proud of and ends up feeling light and underwhelming rather than a hefty, compelling action flick. Watching "Suicide Squad" is just as fun as watching a car accident.....and after watching the travesties that were "Man of Steel," and "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice" (which I initially thought wasn't THAT bad) "Suicide Squad has OFFICIALLY made me done with watching the DC Extended Universe. "Suicide Squad" gets a 2.5 out of 5.