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** The movie spends a good chunk of its running time building up the Joker as a dangerously psychotic criminal mastermind with a massive crime syndicate and military-grade hardware at his fingertips, but then makes him more-or-less incidental to the main plot--even though making him the BigBad could actually have improved the story in many ways. Unlike the Enchantress, the Joker is actually down-to-Earth enough to fight the BadassNormal Suicide Squad on their own terms, yet he could still have been a very plausible threat to Midway City, and making him a major antagonist could have made Harley's ConflictingLoyalties--whether as a member of the Squad or as Joker's partner--a much more central part of the film.
** The film sold us on a story about a team of ex-supervillains seeking redemption as a crack Special Forces team and becoming TrueCompanions in the process, but there are a few problems with the presentation that made it ''very'' hard for that premise to live up to its true potential. The ExtremelyShortTimespan means that there's very little time to believably build the Suicide Squad up as FireForgedFriends, since they still barely know each other by the end of the movie. And because most of the running time is consumed by the Squad's very first mission--where everything that ''can'' go wrong ''does'' go wrong, and they're forced to save the world from another of Waller's recruits--we get very little time to see them functioning together as the hyper-competent team that they're supposed to be. It's a bit hard to cheer for the Squad when the movie seems to spend two hours telling us that [[AccidentalAesop recruiting super-criminals as soldiers is a terrible idea]].
** The film sold us on a story about a team of ex-supervillains seeking redemption as a crack Special Forces team and becoming TrueCompanions in the process, but there are a few problems with the presentation that made it ''very'' hard for that premise to live up to its true potential. The ExtremelyShortTimespan means that there's very little time to believably build the Suicide Squad up as FireForgedFriends, since they still barely know each other by the end of the movie. And because most of the running time is consumed by the Squad's very first mission--where everything that ''can'' go wrong ''does'' go wrong, and they're forced to save the world from another of Waller's recruits--we get very little time to see them functioning together as the hyper-competent team that they're supposed to be. It's a bit hard to cheer for the Squad when the movie seems to spend two hours telling us that [[AccidentalAesop recruiting super-criminals as soldiers is a terrible idea]].
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** The movie spends a good chunk of its running time building up the Joker as a dangerously psychotic criminal mastermind with a massive crime syndicate and military-grade hardware at his fingertips, but then makes him more-or-less incidental to the main plot--even though making him the BigBad could actually have improved the story in many ways. Unlike the Enchantress, the Joker is actually down-to-Earth enough to fight the BadassNormal Suicide Squad on their own terms, yet he could still have been a very plausible threat to Midway City, and making him a major antagonist could have given Harley a much more developed character arc by making her ConflictingLoyalties--whether as a member of the Squad or as Joker\'s partner--a much more central part of the film.
** The film sold us on a story about a team of ex-supervillains seeking redemption as a crack Special Forces team and becoming TrueCompanions in the process, but there are a few problems with the presentation that made it \'\'very\'\' hard for that premise to live up to its true potential. The ExtremelyShortTimespan means that there\'s very little time to believably build the Suicide Squad up as FireForgedFriends, since they still barely know each other by the end of the movie. And because most of the running time is consumed by the Squad\'s very first mission--where everything that \'\'can\'\' go wrong \'\'does\'\' go wrong, and they\'re forced to save the world from another of Waller\'s recruits--we get very little time to see them functioning together as the hyper-competent team that they\'re supposed to be. It\'s a bit hard to cheer for the Squad when the movie seems to spend two hours telling us that [[AccidentalAesop recruiting super-criminals as soldiers is a terrible idea]].
** The film sold us on a story about a team of ex-supervillains seeking redemption as a crack Special Forces team and becoming TrueCompanions in the process, but there are a few problems with the presentation that made it \'\'very\'\' hard for that premise to live up to its true potential. The ExtremelyShortTimespan means that there\'s very little time to believably build the Suicide Squad up as FireForgedFriends, since they still barely know each other by the end of the movie. And because most of the running time is consumed by the Squad\'s very first mission--where everything that \'\'can\'\' go wrong \'\'does\'\' go wrong, and they\'re forced to save the world from another of Waller\'s recruits--we get very little time to see them functioning together as the hyper-competent team that they\'re supposed to be. It\'s a bit hard to cheer for the Squad when the movie seems to spend two hours telling us that [[AccidentalAesop recruiting super-criminals as soldiers is a terrible idea]].
