Los Angeles (CNN) "Suicide Squad" once seemed to offer Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment a shot at redemption after the creatively botched "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice." From afar, "Suicide Squad" had a chance to become Warner Bros.' answer to "Guardians of the Galaxy," in which Marvel scored a major hit with relatively unknown, third-tier characters. Yet this bad-guys-enlisted-to-do-good tale hits its own snags, generating only sporadic moments of fun amid near-relentless chaos. The movie itself doesn't deliver, though; writer-director David Ayer ("Fury") was simply never able to wrangle this project -- teeming with obscure evildoers -- into a consistently coherent narrative. There's some irony, in fact, in the assembled bad guys being led by a never-miss assassin named Deadshot (Will Smith), since so much of the movie feels aimless.

Source: CNN August 03, 2016 17:37 UTC