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This movie sucks. Hard. It's basically Guardians of the Galaxy if you took away the plot, the character development, and the colour palette. Deadshot is written as a cliché Hitman with a Heart, but as his evil acts are almost entirely told instead of shown, he just feels like yet another Will-Smith-plays-Will-Smith role, only without self-awareness. Harley Quinn is a one-dimensional lunatic whose only reason for being on the squad is to provide Fanservice. El Diablo is introduced as a Retired Badass who has committed to never raising his fists again, then completely abandons that characterization because Deadshot is kind of annoying; his backstory, once it gets revealed, is trite, half-assed and really adds nothing to his character. Rick Flag has hints of a believable character arc, but the film's inability to keep the focus on one character for more than ten seconds largely relegates him to being The Load and/or Mr. Exposition. Amanda Waller maintains a firm grasp on the Idiot Ball and/or Jerkass Ball every second she's on screen, who drives the entire movie through a series of suicidally stupid decisions that serve no purpose beyond showing how evil she is, suffers no consequences, and doesn't develop at all. The rest of the cast are too unnecessary and uninteresting to even be worth discussing. The plot is so derivative and full of holes that it feels like they went out of their way not to make sense; among other things, the entire movie hinges on the government identifying the protagonists as the five people on Earth most likely to kill Superman, for reasons so incredibly, insultingly, astonishingly stupid that it actually would have made more sense if Waller had just said "I didn't know what to do so I picked three names out of a hat". I know there are six people on the Squad, but Waller not knowing how to count wouldn't make her seem any dumber than the movie already does. The acting has been praised even by critics of the movie, but that's more a testament to how low the standards of modern reviewers are than the actual talent of anybody involved. Margot Robbie is admittedly good, but Will Smith doesn’t do anything more than rehash old material, Viola Davies has only one expression, and Jared Leto is just awful. Even the aesthetics are so bad that it's hard to believe there were professional filmmakers involved. This movie is made with a level of incompetence that in prior decades was restricted to universally-derided indie vanity projects like The Room, but apparently modern audiences are so numbed to the mind-numbingly half-assed crap Hollywood keeps churning out that not only can something like this get greenlit by a major studio, but many people (critics included!) will unironically claim it's not that bad. If you've ever wondered whether movies were really better "back in the day", this is your answer.
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Complete and utter garbage
This movie sucks. Hard. It's basically Guardians of the Galaxy if you took away the plot, the character development, and the colour palette. Deadshot is written as a cliché Hitman with a Heart, but as his evil acts are almost entirely told instead of shown, he just feels like yet another Will-Smith-plays-Will-Smith role, only without self-awareness. Harley Quinn is a one-dimensional lunatic whose only reason for being on the squad is to provide Fanservice. El Diablo is introduced as a Retired Badass who has committed to never raising his fists again, then completely abandons that characterization because Deadshot is kind of annoying; his backstory, once it gets revealed, is trite, half-assed and really adds nothing to his character. Rick Flag has hints of a believable character arc, but the film's inability to keep the focus on one character for more than ten seconds largely relegates him to being The Load and/or Mr. Exposition. Amanda Waller maintains a firm grasp on the Idiot Ball and/or Jerkass Ball every second she's on screen, who drives the entire movie through a series of suicidally stupid decisions that serve no purpose beyond showing how evil she is, suffers no consequences, and doesn't develop at all. The rest of the cast are too unnecessary and uninteresting to even be worth discussing. The plot is so derivative and full of holes that it feels like they went out of their way not to make sense; among other things, the entire movie hinges on the government identifying the protagonists as the five people on Earth most likely to kill Superman, for reasons so incredibly, insultingly, astonishingly stupid that it actually would have made more sense if Waller had just said "I didn't know what to do so I picked three names out of a hat". I know there are six people on the Squad, but Waller not knowing how to count wouldn't make her seem any dumber than the movie already does. The acting has been praised even by critics of the movie, but that's more a testament to how low the standards of modern reviewers are than the actual talent of anybody involved. Margot Robbie is admittedly good, but Will Smith doesn’t do anything more than rehash old material, Viola Davies has only one expression, and Jared Leto is just awful. Even the aesthetics are so bad that it's hard to believe there were professional filmmakers involved. This movie is made with a level of incompetence that in prior decades was restricted to universally-derided indie vanity projects like The Room, but apparently modern audiences are so numbed to the mind-numbingly half-assed crap Hollywood keeps churning out that not only can something like this get greenlit by a major studio, but many people (critics included!) will unironically claim it's not that bad. If you've ever wondered whether movies were really better "back in the day", this is your answer.