Suicide Squad is Not Good.
Suicide Squad is not very good. It's the worst kind of "not very good"; it isn't spectacularly awful, its not incredibly over-the-top, its not filled with that one standout character that makes everybody say "they saved the movie." No, it's just your run-of-the-mill aggressively average type of "not very good." The plot is straightforward and rote, none of the Squad are particularly memorable, Rope Guy dies in 2 minutes but I'm guessing everyone saw that one coming. There are so many problems in this movie, I kind of just want to break down each component one by one to see how detrimental each is to the movie. Let's start with point number one: The Joker. To put it bluntly, Jared Leto does not understand who the Joker is at all. Nicholson did, infusing the same manic energy he brought in "The Shining" with some who was cunning and twisted. Ledger did, eschewing humor for a very visible sense of off-kilter, demonstrating h