Yeah... This movie isn't good...
Dont get me wrong, there's some good stuff in it (mostly Deadshot and Harley Quinn), but it's not enough to save the movie from being a steaming mess of a movie.
I'll start with what I liked about the movie
1.I loved Will Smith as Deadshot, he was the highlight of the movie, and the most well-crafted character in the film. He has charisma, clear motivation (which is lacking from every other character in the movie), and relatability for why he is how he is. He made the movie worth seeing.
2.Harley Quinn is a fun character, you're given just enough insight to feel sympathetic for her, although her motivations can often times feel muddled.
3.There were some fun action pieces, and the super villain gone hero team dynamic was fairly refreshing.
And now for the bad...
1.I felt as if this movie had no clear vision on what it was setting out to achieve. It just kind of goes all over the place, it's paced terribly, and it continually contradicts itself and backtracks. For example, the tone of the film is astonishingly inconsistent. It feels jarring as it goes from being a dark redemption piece, to a sci-fi action fest, to Season of the Witch, to something failing to mimic Guardians of the Galaxy.
2.The editing is choppy and you can tell David Ayer's film was hacked to pieces. Things happen within the movie and it'll make no sense, because they've cut out various information points, either to keep the film shorter or to fill it with more jokes. I was left scratching my head quite a number of times because of how poorly the film gave its audience information. There was one character that I ended up thinking was dead, only to come back, only to randomly disappear (with me having to deduce she was probably dead), and then to come back again, out of the blue. The editing made BvS seem like a coherent film. If Humpty Dumpty post fall was a movie, it'd be this movie.
3.The villain (and thus the driving goal of the plot of the movie) was terrible. She wasn't a Marvel villain type of bad by being bland and unforgettable, she was distinctly memorable for how awful in every way shape and form she was. The concept behind her was ridiculous and silly. Her mannerisms made me nearly bust out laughing at how ridiculous they were, her motivations were weak, and the lines that came out of her mouth reminded me of a filler boss from a filler dungeon in World of Warcraft. Not to mention her design (and her brother's) were ugly AF. I'd expect her to come out of the minds of a bad dungeon master for D&D, not one of the bright minds of Hollywood.
4.The script, for the most part, was incoherent and simply put, trash. With the exception of Quinn and Deadshot, every line that was spoken in the movie made me cringe a little because it felt so forced. Not to mention there are many character decisions throughout the movie that make no sense, and break whatever character it is they built. The writing for this movie is a big underlying problem that causes everything else to fall apart.
5.I didn't like Jared Leto's joker, he kind of seemed like he was trying to hard to harness Nicholson and Ledger that he ended up falling flat for me. Easily one of the worst versions of the Joker I've seen.
6.The greatest hits soundtrack was jarring for me. It wasn't played into the film in a manner that would make the music work, and felt like it was a poor job at trying to copy Guardians of the Galaxy's success. The music was mostly distracting and placed in scenes where it didn't work.
7.The exposition can often go off the wall in the film. Instead of showing you information, it just randomly feeds it to you whenever it realizes it didn't explain something earlier. It stopped me from truly being enamored by any of the characters, near the beginning especially.
I could go on, but you get the picture. This movie isn't good. At all. Will Smith and Margot Robbie are the two things that are stopping me from giving it an F because I really enjoyed their characters. I'd love to see something focusing on Smith exclusively.
Anyways, I didn't really passionately hate the movie. I felt felt indifferent and unmoved. Batman v Superman angered me for its treatment of the characters, this movie just felt like a big disappointment. It's overall quality is probably worse than BvS, it just didn't make me angry like BvS did.
D-