Finally Saw SS, Trash? No, But It's Completely Thoughtless

So it was my wife's turn to choose a movie for date night and partly because she loves Wonder Woman, partly because she'll have a good time if I like SS, and partly because she'll enjoy annoying me if I don't, she chose Suicide Squad for us to watch.  I gave it an honest shot, although I completely admit that I wasn't hopeful.

First off, my favorite character was the jail guard who was a dick to several members of the team.  Yes, seriously, that was my favorite character.  He had the best lines in the movie.  Deadshot was pretty cool actually.  They did good using him to drive the film and there were a lot of good scenes played off of him, my favorite being "2nd go delete my browser history" which I genuinely laughed at.  He had a good look, solid backstory, cool use of skill, etc.  Harley was also portrayed well,  Diablo made sense in terms of his character arc,

And that's about it for the positives.

The main theme here is almost nothing was explored, character backstories were given in one or two sentences, the villain's only motivation was 'she doesn't like things', and half the characters didn't matter at all.  Seriously, they could have cut out the entire Joker side story altogether and nothing about the plot changes at all.  It affected nothing.  It was useless.

Killer Croc was useless, Boomerang didn't matter, and Slipknot did nothing.  All three characters could have been dropped and you lose nothing.  None of them had an important scene.  You didn't need Slipknot just to prove the bombs were real.  You didn't need Boomerang just for the 5 second camera view of Enchantress.  And you didn't need Croc to swim to the bomb when you already established there were guys with scuba gear who got there without him.  They should have dropped all of them and introduced Katana at the beginning, using all of their screen time to give her backstory a little more purpose, because other than bringing the sword that stops Enchantress, she didn't do anything important either.  And what a horrible introduction she had, with Flagg annoyingly telling you about her sword.  Holy shit that was some amateur shit dialogue.

Even Harley didn't do anything of value.  Anybody could have picked up that sword.  There was no reason she did it other than they wanted to give her a moment.  Up until then, why is a crazy woman with a baseball bat on a team that was designed to stop the next Superman.  She has no chance of helping such an effort.  And not to mention her backstory added zero to her character.  After watching it, I have no idea why she became Harley, why she fell in love with Joker, and it's because all you see is him asking her for a machine gun.  They tell you in one sentence that she loves him, and I'm supposed to accept that?  Seriously, that's the best effort they could make?

"her sword traps the souls of it's victims", "just as I hoped, it got personal", "I built a machine" , "they didn't have clearance," this movie is just full of one liners they think are supposed to fully explain the plot and get you emotionally invested in what's happening with no other set up.  That's how lazy as shit this movie is.

And then we have the villain.  First, WTF is she doing?  The writers got to the point of having her "build a machine" whatever that means, and then she does absolutely nothing the rest of the film until the squad shows up like it's the end of a Final Fantasy game.  Are there any details on this machine or how it works?  nope.  All we know is however long it takes the team to get to her is the exact amount of time she needs to build it.  Second, HOLY SHIT the zombies she makes are completely pointless.  They show up, they all get killed, they show up, they all get killed, and no this isn't the same as the Chitari.  In that case there was an established army at the beginning with a stated goal of winning the Earth for Loki.  But these zombies just show up wherever we want an action scene and are easily defeated with a bat.  Are we supposed to be afraid of turning into them?  Is she going to turn everybody into one of them?  I have no idea, the film doesn't address what the fucking point of them is, and they were weak as shit.  Third, how bad was the CGI on her in her clean form?  Her dirty form worked a little better, but she looked like a cartoon in her clean form and so did her brother.

What they should have done is cut out the completely pointless characters like Boomerang, Croc, and Slipknot, bring in Katana earlier and add to her and Diablo's backstory while tying in the themes of the supernatural between their powers and Enchantress.  Then have what the Joker is doing actually affect the plot in some tangible way, even if his mission had nothing to do with Enchantress.  Those things alone would have made this a far more competent film.

As it is, they filmed a rough draft.  This was a first pass at a film, they gave up, and just filmed it without putting any more effort into the script, and it's obviously vanilla, thoughtless, and everything said or presented is just lip service to ideas that might have been cool have they had put any effort into it.  But what it turned out to be is a lazy, boring, pointless film.