Suicide Squad Review: 3 Ups And 7 Downs

6. Everything About The Villain Is Lazy

There was very little made about the villain the Squad would be facing in the film in the marketing, leading to all manner of speculation. The explanation is sadly the most limp of the lot; there just isn't much to the villain to show.

So yeah, it's Enchantress, which the later TV spots had pretty much already revealed. Quite what she's up to is sloppily thrown out across the movie and full of logic holes, but essentially she's an ancient spirit wanting revenge on all of humanity for something or other who's roped into the Task Force X program and uses this as an opportunity to wreak havoc. It's underbaked as an idea and is given very little time to actually breath in the film itself.

Cara Delevingne isn't up to much either; she is, as always feared, marketing casting, an attempt to draw in her millions of Instagram followers rather than provide a truly threatening antagonist. Her normal June Moone is a generic mousey suit, and while there's something unnerving about the physicality of her mystical alternate form, most of the time she's just stood in place screaming.

The wider problems with the story - why Task Force X have to be called in - stem from this and how utterly ineffective the threat is, which is depressingly hilarious; there's something perverse about the villain movie having such a bad villain.