I watch the original suicide squad with high hopes I heard the panning, but surely it couldn't be that bad (but it was) this soft reboot or continuation but not a continuation, whatever you want to call it worked so much better. The team felt more expendable, we actually got to see characters on screen and be invested in them before they got killed, and with such a large cast it kept you guessing. Harley was vastly improved over the first, fixing her relationship with the joker, and toning down those terrible tattoos from the first. Being emotionally invested in such a throwaway character like polkadot man (yes I know he was in the old comics) was definitely one of the biggest and most plesent surprises. I love the commitment to keeping it weird, and violent.