‘Honest trailer’ shows exactly why Suicide Squad sucked

IT MAY be among the top-grossing films of 2016, but now the dust has settled, let’s all admit something: Suicide Squad sucked.

It was a hit, but let’s be real: Suicide Squad was a stinker of a film.

IT MAY be among the top-grossing films of 2016, but now the dust has settled, let’s all admit something: Suicide Squad sucked.

We’re hardly putting forth a controversial opinion here — the film “enjoys” an approval rating of just 26 per cent among fans and critics on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes — but thankfully, the team at Screen Junkies have put together an “Honest Trailer” to hilariously track just where it all went wrong for the much-hyped film.

In a similar vein to recent “honest trailers” for disappointing reboots of Ghostbusters and Independence Day, their Suicide Squad video pokes fun at a film that’s at pains to point out how edgy and bad its antiheroes are at every turn.

These bad guys are, like, totally bad, OK?

Apologies to homegrown stars Jai Courtney and Margot Robbie — apparently your characters amount to “some drunk guy with a boomerang” and a “90-pound girl with a bat”.

Those two got off relatively lightly, though: special snark is reserved for Cara Delevingne — who “makes the jump from modelling to acting like the wavy inflatable arm things outside car dealerships” — and the controversial Joker Jared Leto, who Screen Junkies dub “Heath Lesser”.

Jared Leto goes for ‘menacing’ but comes off more ‘Ace Ventura Pet Detective’.

“Experience Jared Leto’s intense character acting that blurred the line between actor, character — and total douchebag,” says the narrator, pointing out that Leto “does in just 10 minutes of screentime what no other actor has been able to do: Make the Joker totally suck.”

Oh, and bonus points to Screen Junkies for fiiiiinnally pointing out something that’s been bugging us about sci-fi and comic book movies for years now — why does every bad guy’s plan to destroy the world nowadays involve the use of a Giant Electric Magnetic Sky Beam Force Field Thingo?

The Suicide Squad world-ending force field thingo ...

Guys. It’s been done.

See the Honest Trailer for yourself below: