Director David Ayer still has not changed. He always creates a movie that has massive potential but there would be parts where he doesn't know how to transition and it spoils the movie entirely. In the case of Suicide Squad, there were more problems than I would have liked.
Even for the action parts, Ayer is supposed to be good at directing them; but somehow when it comes to comic book characters with powers, Ayer just couldn't get something exciting out of them, especially when it comes to hand-to-hand combat.
Perhaps the only complaint that I didn't have were the cast because I thought all of them acted well. Even the small role by Ike Barinholtz was brilliant as he was the reason for many laughters.
And especially with Margot Robbie and Jared Leto, I should think all the fans would be satisfied with Robbie bringing one of the most beloved DC character to life; and Leto for bringing back The Joker with a new twist to the character from all the previous ones.
Will Smith's Deadshot may not have been a leader of Task Force X in the comics but he clearly grew into it here, which I have no issues with.
The soundtrack for the movie was also one of the best parts of the movie.
As for the negatives, I would have to step into SPOILERS territory. But here's one for you to look out for if you are not touching the SPOILERS section: Harley's giant hammer was suddenly swapped for a baseball bat without any warning.
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Ayer has no subtlety, everything was very in-your-face and sometimes felt very forced.
The movie opened wrong and it felt very awkward. To introduce Deadshot first and then Harley Quinn, and then Viola Davis' Amanda Waller introducing them again for the second time; the editing (as well as throughout the movie) felt very disjointed.
There were many ways after those two scenes with Deadshot and Harley that Ayer could have opened up with. Best way was to just start with Waller introducing the team. And it was also a mistake not to have an introduction for Adam Beach's Slipknot. Even though he's to be "sacrificed" at least make the audience care about him first.
The Joker sprinkled into the movie also felt very awkward. None of the scenes with him felt fluid. He wasn't even introduced well.
The biggest downfall of the movie came from one small scene in the middle and the final battle sequence. First was Waller taking the first helicopter out of danger and told everyone else to wait for the next one, and to fend for themselves should any danger came along. Thirty seconds later her helicopter was shot down and she had to fend for herself. That's just lazy writing because it would have made more sense had she gotten some bodyguards. And she just threw the whole squad under the bus and Joel Kinnaman's Rick Flag so easily convinced everyone to go save her for the second time. The whole thing played out very unconvincingly.
Also by this time, the Squad suddenly bonded to become best friends. But Ayer never let that team's dynamic and relationship breathe. Some characters never even spoke and the audience is supposed to believe that they know became a - the word used was - family. I didn't buy it at all.
Then the final battle sequence involved two bombs. One that needs to be detonated under that weird brother of Cara Delevingne's Enchantress for reasons that were never clearly explained and again, awkwardly executed. The other was to bomb up the portal, which not one character ever bothered to explain why a bomb would suffice to destroy an out-of-this-world portal.
To be honest, I didn't even understand what they were trying to do in the end. I didn't even know what the portal was for. It was a mess and not a beautiful one, which is what the movie should have been - a beautiful mess.
After all that, I have to conclude that David Ayer was the wrong choice. And DC and Warner Bros. Pictures are continuing to make bad choices when it comes to the writing and / or directing. Which actually shows WB being quite incompetent when it comes to their DC properties.
And I never thought it would come to this, but we have to now look towards Gal Gadot and Wonder Woman to give the current DC universe its first great movie.
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