How Suicide Squad Missed the Mark

As a big movie fan, Suicide Squad is one of my least favorites because it is such a colossal disappointment. The film has a solid premise and seems enticing, especially if you like comic books and their big-screen adaptations: a team of expendable convicts with special abilities tasked with taking down a supernatural threat. However, the film falls far short of delivering on expectations, largely due to a convoluted plot which keeps viewers to caught up in confusion to focus on what is going on. Overall, the movie comes across as an extended, mindless action-sequence occasionally spliced with  poor attempts at humor. An all-star cast led by Margot Robbie, Will Smith, and Jared Leto does its best to salvage the poorly-written film, but ultimately to no avail as the plot is too fragmented to drive forward or develop some semblance of comprehensibility. I am torn by the planned release of a sequel because I want to give it another shot because of its potential, but I know that in all likelihood this flop was too extreme to come back from and I will be left feeling disappointed again. If you’re a DC comics fan, I implore you not to watch this film as it is the latest in a string of blunders based on the comic franchise. Anyone else, if you love being confused and random people fighting each other, then is the film for you! I rate this a dismal 3/12.