That was the worst movie I've seen so far this year, taking the title from Gods of Egypt. This plays like Ayer was told to combine The Dark Knight and Guardians of the Galaxy, but had no idea what made either of those movies work individually, let alone how a mix of the two would work.
- The structure of this movie is awful. Why does Deadshot have three different introductory scenes? Why are there two different scenes of Waller pitching the creation of Task Force X, making basically the same argument, and both scenes come right after each other? Why does it take almost a full hour to even get the Squad in the same room? It's not like we spent that time establishing them as individuals, either.
- The Enchantress deserves her own entry detailing how much all this sucks. The relationship between Rick Flag and June Moon is handled with all the finesse of Katara's exposition about Sokka and Yue in The Last Airbender, and then we're somehow supposed to care at the end of the movie that she's still alive? Why? Why did they decide that the first mission of a gritty, mostly street-level team should be to fight some kind of revived Mayan god? Why did Waller have that one other statuette in her house, that just happened to contain Incubus? Why did nobody realize that poor Cara Delevingne looks absolutely ridiculous gyrating around like she's asked to do for most of the movie?
- The Joker bribes some guard to get him access to Harley. Said guard runs up to Harley as she's being escorted out for deployment by a bunch of soldiers, basically shouting about "Mr. J" and hands her a phone, which Harley then visibly uses on the helicopter, and absolutely nobody notices other than Deadshot?
- Why is Katana in this movie? Or Boomerang, or Croc, for that matter?
- What the hell is Diablo's arc supposed to be? If he's sworn to be non-violent, how is Deadshot able to goad him so easily into burning a bunch of stuff? It doesn't really seem like that big a deal, in that context, and then, even as they're all marching off to try to stop Enchantress, they're still asking him if he's going to fight with them, even though he has by that point chosen to come with them.
- At what point exactly did the Squad become "a family", in Diablo's words? They barely interact, other than that one scene in a bar.
- In the scene where Harley gets in an elevator, how exactly did the entire rest of the Squad get up to wherever she was getting off before the elevator got there?
- If Slipknot's death is meant to be a surprise for the audience (which is the only reason I can think of for why it's there), why does nobody in charge seem to understand that that only works if you make him seem like a significant character beforehand? He's literally introduced at the last minute, and then dies immediately. There is no weight to it at all, nor, as staged, is it darkly funny either.
- The movie's soundtrack may as well have been credited to a lobotomized Robert Zemeckis. It's just incessant, basically bludgeoning the audience with how hip and kewl everything is. The introductory sequences are just one jarringly on-the-nose choice after another.
Most of the actors are good, particularly Smith, Robbie, and Davis. Kinnaman really doesn't come across like he's the best special forces operative in US history, though; of the people who get significant time, he's definitely the weakest.
