Source: screenrant.com

9. The Bad: Still a Structural Disaster

Can someone please buy Warner Brothers a book on the three act structure? Please?

Much like Batman v Superman, Suicide Squad has serious structural problems. The setup takes upwards of thirty minutes of the film's runtime, and the third act is somewhere between forty-five minutes and a full hour. The last hour of your movie can't ALL be the climax! It gets incredibly boring and exhausting. Every scene feels like it was edited to the bone and shoved awkwardly into place in the film.

We are introduced to Deadshot three separate times. Three. Separate. Times. Instead of sliding flashbacks and origins into the plot naturally, we get an obscenely long series of introdumps accompanied by music cues that were so transparently trying to knock off Guardians of the Galaxy's charm that it was kind of hilarious.

Character motivations change from scene to scene and major plot elements are completely forgotten. Harley's bomb being shut off? Forgotten. The team hating Katana as much as Flag? Totally abandoned! Diablo's arc being set up as an abandonment of his violent ways? What's character development?

It's possible that this film was destroyed in the edit, but that doesn't excuse this paper mache and swiss cheese structure of a film. Embarrassing.