Will Smith is a box-office draw, to be certain, but I don’t know how much “legs” this will have. DC’s Suicide Squad was always a B-list title at best, and pretty obscure even at its height. Fan-boys will be the primary audience, and therein lies the problem. Jared Leto most definitely has big clown shoes to fill, and I don’t know that the fans who will drive the success of this film will accept him. Yes, we need to move past Heath Ledger’s almost perfect Joker, but I am dubious that anyone could bring the sinister mania that Ledger so wonderfully portrayed.

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