Suicide Squad is an ensemble action movie in the vein of The Dirty Dozen and Inglourious Basterds: unpretentious, irreverent, perverse and unexpectedly moving. It has little of the sentimentalism and pretentiousness of recent superhero movies like Batman v Superman and Captain America: Civil War, and like Guardians of the Galaxy it points the way forward for a less conventional outing in the genre.

Suicide Squad has all the ingredients that are collectively essential to a superhero film. Action, witty dialogues delivered at the best of times and lots of special effects thrown in as well. But what this gang of delightfully crazy rogues offer is something subversive, a disregard for any pretense of doing something noble, and yet, they are all motivated by a simple desire to just get a chance at living a normal life again.

Go for it… at least once. It has its flaws, but nothing you can’t ignore. And it has Will, Margot and Viola. And it’s all about loving your villains, after all.

…comes across as a film made for the DC Universe fans who in all likelihood will lap up the film. However if you are not one, the film will feel like multiple action sequences that have been strung together with a reasonable story line to form one feature film.

After the success of Marvel superhero films, DC wants to jump on the bandwagon too and has fast-tracked its own ventures. In a bid to make up for lost ground, its banking on edgier storylines but a little more character and plot development was sorely needed in both Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and in Suicide Squad.

So sadly it’s not the masterpiece we expected, but it’s also not an utter disappointment. It manages to be ridiculously fun in some of its loud and crazy extravagance.

Overall, I’ll still watch DC movies, but I do feel like they are missing something that the Marvel counterpart has got right. Maybe it’s heart, maybe Marvel just have more practice but I hope DC can redeem themselves soon.