Opened: August 5, 2016

Directed by: David Ayer

Starring: Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Cara Delevingne, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jared Leto, David Harbour, Ike Barinholtz, Scott Eastwood, Adam Beach, Karen Fukuhara, Ezra Miller, Alain Chanoine, Jim Parrack, Common, Alex Meraz, Shailyn Pierre-Dixon & Ben Affleck

Suicide Squad had the potential and looked like a turning point for DC Comics films after its noticeably bleak and serious predecessors. But with a bad script and thinly written characters, the film sealed its own fate.

Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) builds a team of villains to fight off metahumans. Including Deadshot (Will Smith) and Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), they must work together to take down the ancient evil Enchantress (Cara Delevingne).

Outside of Deadshot, Harley and El Diablo (a fantastic Jay Hernandez), you don’t learn much about the characters’ stories, so there’s no investment to them. With so many introduced, you’ll walk away forgetting how they play into the action.

The storyline is somewhat hard to follow, and the climax is unsatisfying with weak CGI taking away from what could have been interesting fights.

Final say: Dead on arrival. ★☆☆☆☆