![]() Also, while the other members of the cast and the villain are entertaining to watch, they only have only surface level characterisation, seemingly interesting on the surface, but not really much underneath. Once an action scene in a police evidence locker takes place though, the movie calmed down considerably and is a lot more watchable. ![]() The first half is very messy as the movie bounces around and moves back and forth in a Rashomon attempt that really didn't work and kind of annoyed me. Most of the movies problems for me come from the script. Margot Robbie continues to be excellent as this franchises version of Harley Quinn, and Ewen McGregor looks like he's having the time of his life as a sleazy but intimidating villain. The movies style and colour pallet are very eye catching and visually interesting. She really knows how to frame an exciting action scene with nice wide, full body shots to show off the great stunt work. Firstly, Cathy Yan directed the hell out of this movie. Birds of prey is a very entertaining movie, albeit one with some irritating flaws. By focusing on smaller, more personal stories with more personal stakes. In short, it’s trash, and deserves to sink without trace, like Ewan McGregor’s body parts.Birds of prey shows that DC has finally righted the ship after several early stumbles in this franchise. The world of Gotham is supposed to be a depressing place – through irritatingly in the DCEU it’s just New York redressed, but Birds of Prey, content to be nihilistic and mean-spirited as an end in itself, gives the audience not one character it can engage with emotionally or psychologically, leaving them adrift in a world of sensory overload and fetishized violence. Maybe women will cheer, but this male audience member felt like he’d had a mobile phone kicked at his head, or his legs broken, or his groin pummelled, and was left without a single joke or memorable sequence that he could point to that had alleviated the gloom. Yan’s coarse, cokehead sensibility, makes for a disjointed and dispiriting film about nothing a movie with dubious feminist credentials that ultimately amounts to a group of thin characters, who never transcend their signature traits, piling pain and physical injury onto a succession of psychopathic males. Schumacher at least, exerted full control over his material, even if that material was toxic. Your eyes grow weary of the DayGlo colour scheme, reminiscent of that other DC-inspired disaster of yesteryear, Joel Schumacher’s Batman movies. There’s a single idea at the centre – teen pickpocket steals diamond coveted by crime lord and new free agent Quinn is told to bring her in or be killed – and lots of concentric story circles that orbit this centre, thereby enlarging a story that told straight would barely fill out a ten minute short.Ĭathy Yan’s movie is full of sound and fury, but it’s an empty and overcooked spectacle that manages the unforgivable double whammy of being witless and boring. ![]() Perhaps, to adopt the tiresome metacommentary that’s heard throughout Birds of Prey, that’s unfair – maybe the plot better resembles the giant target on Harley’s living room wall. The parent movie was also a structural misfit – it had one act drawn out over two hours. It takes most of the two hour-plus running time to get the titular Birds into the same room, and having done so, gives them a single thing to do together before they go their separate ways. This spin-off from Suicide Squad, with Margot Robbie reprising her role as Harley Quinn, has a plot mapped out like a toddler’s doodle. Warning: This review alludes to the film’s ending. ![]()
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