honestly surprised butttttt from what some of the reviews seem to be saying I think it might have something to do with going PG-13 and half assed with the mood and tone. A lot of reviewers seem to indicate it starts strongly but then goes into cliches and predictable messes that are in every superhero movie.
My feelings are that they compromised what the Suicide Squad is with the lower rating. They should have went very dark and untraditional as far as superhero movies. you have a group of the world's WORST criminals working together as antiheros and its a PG-13 movie? that's pretty absurd, I mean we're talking about guys/girls who murder for fun and don't care about being politically correct or polite
I gurantee the issue with this film is the inconsistency of the crew and story. A movie about villains forced to do good that's going for the sort of tone shown in the trailers really NEEDED (in my opinion) an R rated with blood, sex, language, etc.
instead most likely what you get is a watered down crowd pleaser that never becomes believable because its main characters don't fully behave as dark as one would expect, and a plot which most likely turns a little too unrealistically positive (or unexplainably vague if its dark)
it just keeps going back to the PG-13 rating for me. This is a 'superhero' movie that to me seems to beg for an R rating so it can do what it wants without worrying about the crowd, ala Deadpool. Deadpool worked fantastically because anything was possible and nothing was holding back the humor and action. This could have used the same thing. Granted, I haven't seen it, but based on the trailers looking good one can only assume that the issue does have to do with the tone of the film (dark) not matching the plot and actions of the characters
