Suicide Squad's Extended Cut: 8 Problems The Movie Needs To Fix

Suicide Squad is a film of solid pieces and moments that never quite come together. Jared Leto's Joker practically personifies this train of thought, with his take on the character proving to be genuinely fresh and creative while simultaneously feeling like it belongs in a completely different movie.

For starters, he's only on-screen for about ten minutes, and seems rather inconsequential to the main plot. The film almost knows this, too - right after he rescues Harley, his helicopter crashes and he vanishes for nearly 40 minutes, leaving her right back where she started and proving that the story can chug along just fine without his presence.

From the trailers (and Jared Leto's own comments), we know that there's tonnes of Joker footage that was left on the cutting room floor. But rather than just adding it back in haphazardly, the filmmakers must be careful to reinstate scenes that bring the Joker's tale more in line with the squad's.

This footage does exist - the trailers showed shots of him with a burnt face, a scene that reportedly involved a brief encounter with Deadshot and the gang. Why cut this out?! As it stands, you could literally remove the Joker from the film and it wouldn't change one bit.

By adding these small details back in, the character will actually feel like he belongs in the movie, and we won't be left with a string of random scenes that - while pretty engaging in their own right - feel completely, and utterly, out of place.

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