he's not great, he's just a B list actor who plays himself in most films. when it comes to drama, he's worse because he speaks slower and thinks he's the best there is.
As of this film, it's okay, just didn't like the costumes.

that seen where he shot all the power puff villains that was pathetic. Real child like cringe.
Nothing he did was any different to Will Smith in just about every other Will Smith movie.

No. I actually thought Common would have been a vastly superior Deadshot. It's a shame they wasted him on a throw-away scene.

Will Smith was straight up fire in this movie, probably not true to the Deadshot character but by far the best thing in this movie and very fun to watch.

He was likable only because he had that Will Smith charm that he brings to all his roles. He wasn't really playing Deadshot.

No. He acted almost nothing like Floyd Lawton, presumably because of his ridiculous narcissistic contractual stipulations about protecting his image. The differences between his Deadshot and any other typical Will Smith character require a microscope to be seen.

I like Will Smith, he's a very good actor, but it does seem at times he's almost content to play the same character in most his films.

Will Smith Bloopers in Suicide Squad

He acted more like Del Spooner from I robot.

The BOSS of this place

Precisely. A good example of an ethnicity swap that actually works (in a similarly muddled mess of a project I may add) is Hugo Strange in Gotham. To my amazement, I never notice Wong's race at all, I merely see Professor Strange. If they were to say that they'd opened the auditions to men of all races and B.D. Wong was simply the best for the role, I would completely believe it.
Will Smith was brought into this to play Will Smith and prop the B.O. Nothing more was expected, and nothing more was delivered.

That wasn't the issue. The characterization of Deadshot was wrong. It was that the character was retooled from a cold-blooded assassin to a guy with a heart of gold who happened to kill people for money, coupled with an actor who was just playing a variation of himself. The skin color wasn't the problem here.
Logan, buddy. It's me, Deadpool! I shot youuuuuu.

another white character given to a black person sterling work hollywood!

Sorry retard, but you talking sh!t. Willy was an terrible Deadshot. Go and read the Comics.

Will Smith was great as deadshot. He carried the movie. How angry you are right now is directly proportional to how jealous you are.

Jealous? Hahahaha! Are you some kind of retard? Willy Philly was garbage as Deadshot. This was even Deadshot, is just Smith playing himself.

Agreed. Will Smith was amazing as Deadshot and the haters are just jealous.

Yeah he was cool.
Lose the Game!!!!!!!

I can agree with that, OP.
if you don't have anything nice to say you're probably a butthole

I agree with the others that say Will Smith is playing Will Smith, but I think it works well in this movie.

He was OK, but he was just playing Will Smith in a Deadshot costume (much like almost every role he's ever played). The worst part is that they sacrificed so much focus on the other character just to feed Smith's ego.

But it was because he was played by Will Smith that he had to have a heart of gold and never once actually come across as a villain

Will Smith was arguably the worst portrayal in this movie, he reflected none of Deadshot's personality traits. it was clearly a case will smith came into this movie doing will smith with zero research or understanding of the character.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan with Negans role in The Walking Dead is probably the only character resembling deadshots portrayal. (which is sad as a reference as i am not a fan of the walking dead series at all)
cara delevingne was the worst part of the movie period
but frankly all the characters were awful, Margot Robbie was probably the only actor playing true to her character if you were to excluded the beep sentimental moral values.

He wasn't bad but the problem with Will Smith is all his characters are basically Will Smith. You can never look at him and not think thats Will Smith.
"Not all change is progress, as not all movement is forward."

change your header.
Will Smith as Will Smith