Oh what put-upon, misunderstood, sensitive, bitter, twisted fools comic geeks are. None more so than the many DC comics "die-hards" who this week, disappointed by negative reviews of director David Ayers' Suicide Squad, took to social media to spit venom at critics and petition for review aggregation site rottentomatoes.com to be shut down. The negative reaction to the film comes as a second blow to DC after the abysmal mess that was the company's first film outing this year - Batman vs Superman. Ayers, the director of some very watchable action dramas, including End of Watch and Fury, has delivered a shabby, irritating slop of a film that wastes the talents of an ensemble cast that includes Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Jared Leto and Viola Davis.The premise of the film is a superhero take on the group-of-badass-characters-brought-together-to-save-the-world genre that includes classics such as Robert Aldrich's Dirty Dozen and Quentin Tarantino'sInglourious Basterds. But it has none of the wit, skill or irony of those films.In a world where Superman has died, hawkish hard-nosed Amanda Waller (Viola Davis, doing a slightly more bitchy version of her TV character in How to Get Away with Murder) decides that America's only defence against threats from bad guys with superpowers is another very nasty group of bad guys with superpowers. These include the sharpshooting hitman Deadshot (Will Smith), the sexy but unstable Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) - who also happens to be the girlfriend of The Joker (Jared Leto) now the undisputed leader of Gotham's underworld - and the flame spraying Diablo (Jay Hernandez), who has anger management issues.Sprung from prison and forced against their will and on pain of death to form a secret government hit squad under the leadership of crack special forces operative Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman), the Suicide Squad are sent to save the world from the evil machinations of the Enchantress (Cara Delevingne ) who, when she's not running around like a badly CGI'd Kali, is the mild-mannered archaeologist June Moon, who also happens to be Flag's girlfriend. All of which sets the scene for several overlong, overblown and horribly gaudy confrontations between our antiheroes and their nemeses.While Robbie gets the shortest pants and most of the one-liners, the rest of the team are hampered by lumpy, expositional and lifeless dialogue that's supposed to remind us that even bad guys have some humanity.There may be lots of violence and action here but it's in the service of a story we care less about than which Kardashian is currently trending on Twitter.Comic geeks need to accept that sometimes garbage is just garbage no matter how hard the hype machine and online indignation tries to pretend it's caviar.OTHERS SAY...A formulaic, blood and bullet-riddled David Ayer superhero thriller starring a high-mileage Will Smith and Margot Robbie's butt-cheeks. - Staff reporter, rogersmovienation.comJust the right brand of action, hijinks, foreboding and DC Universe building. - Doug Norrie, cinemablend.com..