It wasn't my intention to watch this, but as fate would have it, I ended up watching it.
Before going in, I knew the Rotten Tomatoes score, I knew that despite this, it made a lot of money, and i also knew that two youtube film reviewers had two differing views on the movie. The question in my mind was, would I agree with Mr. Stuckman or would I agree with Mr. Jahns.
Before the film started, I bought a burrito, this was what I was eating during the first 15 to 20 minutes of the film; if it wasn't for the burrito I probably would have fallen asleep. Whenever, a film is about to start I create images in my mind, and wonder what the first sequence in the film will be like, and more often than not, my images are better. Suicide Squad, my beginning sequences were, I don't now, a million, a billion times better.
The beginning of Suicide Squad had no tension, no momentum, even Man of Steels introduction albeit way too long had, stakes, tension and was at the very least exciting, the same goes for Batman V Superman, but here, we are subjected to an obscene mixture of graphics, music, bad editing, voice over, flashback, flash forward, I came to watch a movie, I didn't come to grab myself a headache.
This movie, is full to the brim with flashbacks. One or two, is fine, but if the entire narrative is dependant on flashbacks, someone needs to do some re-writing. We have flashback of every character, multiple times and we are introduced to the characters multiple times. We are subjected to freeze frames and top trump style stats, such things as number of kills, weapons used, golf handicaps - this is just lazy writing, I presume this was supposed to be flash and cool, but it came across as cheap and pointless. For a moment, I thought I was watching Street Fighter,and to be honest i would rather have watched E.Honda, break buildings with his hands for 90 minutes than be in here.
The concept, just didn't mesh well with me, it could have, if say your villains were actually needed to complete the task at hand, they weren't needed. They could have asked Batman and he would have done it. These villains were going up against a god type being and half of them didn't have any super powers; Captain Boomerang, Slipknot, Harley Quinn, Killercroc, Deadshot - what exactly did these guys bring to the table - Only diablo was worth anything and maybe Katana, but she was just trained in sword skills.
Amanda Waller in her infinite wisdom, decided the best method in destroying two God like beings was with, boomerangs, guns, knives and baseball bats and teeth. All they had to do to make this movie not only good but great, was lower the stakes. That's all. Instead of two God Like Beings to defeat - this crew of villain Misfits could have been hired to do something the good guys won't be able to do because, because it's against their moral character, like for example assassinating a good guy because he has information that can harm Waller and her cronies.
Instead of saving a city and ultimately the world, Suicide Squad should have been about the destruction of moral character, the blurring of good and bad, the bad things good people do for the greater good... it could have been so much better.. and yes the Joker is in it, and no he has no actual relevance to the plot or story.