9/12/2023 0 Comments Harley quinn birds of prey endingUh… excuse me?! This wouldn’t be an issue with a character that actually has superpowers, but Harley does not, and while it looked awesome, I just couldn’t get behind it. For example, in the climax, Harley somehow manages to successfully do a backflip from the front of a moving car that’s pushing her forward, and lands… in the car. This isn’t as egregious as the script, but there were some stunts that had me scratching my head. Speaking of realism, the action scenes defy the laws of everything quite a few times. The construction of events in this film shattered it on numerous occasions. Like, wow, important character Cassandra Cain just happened to pickpocket the diamond from Black Mask’s henchman! Wow, Huntress somehow managed to kill the fourth person on her hitlist at the exact same time he was about to kill Dinah and Cassandra! I understand that this is a superhero film, and realism isn’t always the highest priority, but there’s only so much my weight my suspension of disbelief can handle. Also, there are so many coincidences that push the story forward that it’s hard to take things seriously. This is likely because the film is only 90-ish minutes long, which is far too short for a film of this scale. It’s somehow simple (people chasing after a special diamond) and complex ( way too many people are chasing after that stupid diamond) at the same time. The narrative is, by far, the film’s worst asset. Action ensues, and, while I generally dislike starting my reviews with a film’s negatives… a lot of confusing and contrived action ensues, which is a shame, because there’s much that’s actually good about it. Along the way, she runs into Dinah Lance, Cassandra Cain, Renee Montoya, and The Huntress (who shall remain nameless for spoiler reasons). After the horrible, drunken decision to make that fact public with a literal bang, she’s now on the run from every villain in Gotham she’s pissed off in the past, namely Ewan McGregor’s Black Mask. The film follows Harley Quinn (Robbie) after her breakup with The Joker. Turns out my intuition was correct, and so, despite my aversion to Suicide Squad, I found myself excited to see its sequel, and her in it-and my intuition was correct again, because Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is a fun, if very flawed, time. Then, she was in I, Tonya, which she was fantastic in, and this year, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. ![]() She was fairly new at the time (before, she was Jordan Belfort’s girlfriend in Wolf of Wall Street, and that’s about it), but something told me she was going to be a superstar. One cast member that particularly stood out was Margot Robbie. There’s only so much sabotage of beloved characters I can take, even though I enjoyed David Ayer’s past works (specifically Fury, a white-knuckled World War 2 bildungsroman) and I liked the cast. ![]() Superman was as bad as people made it out to be in 2016, the news that Suicide Squad was actually worse was enough to dissuade me. I’m gonna be real with you, lovely reader: I didn’t watch Suicide Squad.
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