13 Disappointing Recent Films That Should've Been Great

What Was Expected

A vibrant, fun, stylish and thematically interesting movie with some great characters on screen, a strong cast and an exciting, different sort of vibe.

What We Actually Got

Oh dear.

To get the positives out of the way first, Will Smith, Margot Robbie and especially Viola Davis are very good, the soundtrack works well and the first half-hour is OK. After that, Suicide Squad reveals itself as nothing more than another story about a superhero team fighting faceless goons leading to yet another beam-in-the-sky climax with yet another terrible CGI villain.

Suicide Squad is worse than generic: it's a flaming dumpster fire and a complete betrayal of the values it promoted. None of the 'villains' feel genuinely villainous, they never feel like a team and there's little to no moral ambiguity or darkness in the story at all. It also boasts terrible editing, an emotionless approach and one of the worst finales to a superhero film ever.

While fans continue to debate the merits of the movie and whether or not critics are just biased towards Marvel, it should be accepted: no matter how much you might enjoy it on an entertainment level, no matter how exciting it is to see these characters on screen, this movie is, from a technical and story perspective, completely incompetent.