Director: David Ayer
Year Released: 2016
Rating: 0.5
A shadowy faction of the U.S. Government, led by cold-as-hell Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) gathers together many of the world's worst criminal vermin - including Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), Deadshot (Will Smith), Capt. Boomerang (Jai Courtney) and El Diablo (Jay Hernandez) - to defeat anthropologist-turned-witch June Moone (Cara Delevingne) who, along with her summoned brother, are creating a machine to destroy the world (yes, that again). The script is as awkward as an 8th Grade Dance and may very well have been thought up by the same age group: it tries to add a "fresh slant" on the stale and oversaturated super hero movie ("good guys" like Batman and The Flash are minor characters) but gets too caught up with trying for 'human emotion' (Smith and his daughter, El Diablo's tortured past) and overusing tacky effects. As hard as Jared Leto tries, he can't out-do Ledger's iconic performance as The Joker (which is not Leto's fault) but Robbie's psychiatrist-turned-lunatic is good for a giggle and a jiggle.
