Suicide Squad: 8 Reasons Jared Leto's Joker Is The Worst Part Of The Film

There's a lot of plot turns in the mid-section of Suicide Squad that you get the feeling are meant to be shocking twists but fall flat because they aren't given time to breathe - Waller is the subject of the mission, Joker's in the helicopter - but their problems pale in comparison to how the Joker death fake-out is done.

No sooner is he reunited with Harley than he's shot down and presumed dead in a giant fireball. But there's no mourning or even questioning his survival, so you spend the rest of the movie flipping between waiting for him to pop up (especially as there's more trailer scenes to come) and contemplating whether DC's actually pulled another Jimmy Olsen and sent Mr J to the asylum in the sky. The payoff then comes so late that you've lost all interest. To cap it off, there's not even an explanation for how he survived.

This is another thing that was exacerbated by the re-edits - those trailer scenes you were waiting for ended up in cutting room floor - but it's getting to the point where that's not an excuse.