Just back from seeing this today... holy fuck that was bad, when we talked about rating it after seeing it all I could think was... this wasn't a movie, I can't rate it out of 10 because it was a trailer gone wrong....
It sounds so odd to even think this... but had Will Smith not been in the movie I would well have walked out from it, was just so tiresome, first hour of the film was just like a trailer.
The whole thing should have been broken down into separate movies I think there seemed to just be too much cutting going on taking tiny clips of massive events and presenting them in the form of a boardroom meeting
Marvels universe works because they took time to establish each of the characters so then when you have a movie where they come together you already know how many of the characters react to scenes and you can then judge the new characters being added in because you know the background of the existing characters.
Take Scarlet Witch in Civil War, she is a part of the Avengers and each of them wants to mind her from the Media/Herself Stark thinks what is best for her is to keep her locked up in the tower basically because he loves control, Vision aids Stark in doing so because he is loyal to Starks ideals and is comprised of the jarvis AI, Capt wants her to be able to be free to do as she pleases because America! but the thing is you can get a feeling for the new characters as they are introduced because they are done so against personality's which we know already.
Suicide squad felt like a bunch of clips of characters we barely get 5-10 minutes with all thrown on the floor and you could eat up what you want from it, or just walk away and leave them there, the film just didn't care. Slipknot was featured in the film to show that the collars worked and that Capt Boomerang would use his teammates to test dangerous things (although this was shown in a boardroom flashback also)
Smith was incredible though, really shocked how much I liked his role in this, although his scene with the Bat his outfit.... chaps... leather... I was expecting Wild Wild West to start playing... sadly it didn't.