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The Honest Trailer for Suicide Squad Makes Perfectly Clear Why Everyone Mocked This Overblown Mess of a Movie

Critics weren’t exactly crazy about Suicide Squad, DC’s star-studded follow-up to the maligned Batman v Superman—and if you were a little mystified as to why, Screen Junkies has rendered the movie’s (obvious) flaws bitingly clear in its latest Honest Trailer.

As expected, the trailer spends plenty of time going after the movie’s thin characterization, hackneyed dialogue—“Warner Bros. probably regrets spending just six weeks on the script of this one”—and excessive soundtrack. But the most savage commentary is reserved for what was once the movie’s most anticipated element: Jared Leto as the Joker. “Experience Jared Leto’s intense method acting that blurred the line between actor, character, and being a total douchebag,” the trailer all-too-accurately explains, before revealing the true feat of Leto’s performance: making “the Joker totally suck” as no actor has been able to do, and in just 10 minutes of screen time.