David Ayer, Writer and Director

And here we are – we have arrived at what seems to be the root of the Suicide Squad disaster. David Ayer has written and directed some very powerful movies. However, as Rolling Stone notes, David Ayer sold his soul and went “…all limp-dick and compromised his hardcore action bona fides.” And that is a shame, since David Ayer seemed to me the best thing about Suicide Squad.

So what went wrong here?

As Entertainment Weekly notes, the director, “skillfully sets up the film, introducing each of the crazies with caffeinated comic-book energy.” And this is observed by almost all the reviewers. However, from this point on, Ayer seems to lose control, with the final confrontation being a bust. As Digital Spy notes:

David Ayer has introduced a set of (too many) potentially interesting characters, not given them time to breathe or the audience time to care, and thrown them into a scenario where they must fend off an irrelevant legion of pawns while trying to show off their “wacky” personalities.

Can we say that it wasn’t his fault entirely? I can say that – maybe those damned reshoots actually ruined the film. And what I can further say is that Suicide Squad should have been an R-rated movie from the start. David Ayer would have been perfect in that case.