Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (2020).
Director: Cathy Yan. (15)
Crime
Rating: 2/5
Synopsis
Told with multiple flashbacks, super-violent, super-fun criminal Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) has split from working in dastardly partnership with The Joker.
She joins rebellious, female superheroes Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and browbeaten cop Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez) to save a young girl from evil crime lord Roman Sinois (Ewan McGregor).
Review by @Reelreviewer
I await - with pleasure! - any backlash from comic book film fans who have given this Margot Robbie starring (and produced), uber-violent epic nothing less than 5/5.
This film is possibly the most moronic, depressing, desensitising and boringly, repetitively aggressive cinematic experience I have ever had the displeasure to sit through.
Don't get me wrong, I can tolerate movie violence. I don't enjoy seeing it, but violence happens somewhere on earth at any point in time, so I have no problem with movies depicting it.
But when that's all they depict my eyes roll, I switch off, I want to vacate the planet.
There are some admirable things in this film - the production design and dressing, Robbie herself, but it's not enough to redeem an irredeemably poor production.
It is dull trash masquerading as flashy, post-feminist, 'Gurl Power' larks.
Avoid like the Coronavirus.
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Cast & credits
1hr 49mins/109 mins. Clubhouse Pictures (II)/DC Entertainment/Kroll & Co. Entertainment/LuckyChap Entertainment/Warner Bros. (15).
Producers: Sue Kroll, Margot Robbie, Bryan Unkeless.
Writer: Christina Hodson.
Camera: Matthew Libatique.
Music: Daniel Pemberton.
Sets: K.K. Barrett.
Margot Robbie, Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Ewan McGregor, Ella Jay Basco, Chris Messina, Ali Wong, David Ury.
