![]() That might be due to the amount of side stories and a tiring visual concept, with its overly slapstick cinematography from Matthew Libatique. Harley breaking out of her shackles feels just artificial. Yan believes that her birdies’ kicking, punching and doing some nasty acrobatics will suffice to imbue the story with the theme of emancipation. Birds of Prey (2020) has no sense of direction, and a silly approach to emancipation Cathy Yan and Christina Hodson are, director and screenwriter of Birds of Prey (2020). The struggling cast isn’t, however, the main culprit. Other three supporting characters – a withdrawn child thief, a night-club singer, and a frustrated police officer – are all just as forgettable as they possibly could. Zsasz.Įwan McGregor as Roman Sionis and Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Huntress in Birds of Prey (2020). On top of it comes an allegedly homosexual relationship of McGregor’s character with his right-hand, Mr. This could be a miscasting issue too, but also just a poorly developed character. The random outbursts of cruelty echo a Tarantinesque kind of irony, but I can safely assume it wasn’t the intention of Cathy Yan. Ewan McGregor as Black Mask couldn’t be less menacing. ![]() The rest of the cast tries to make the most out of the hectic Gotham they’re thrown into. Robbie’s in the same league as Jared Leto’s Joker, with over-the-top shlock of a role that brings little to the table for DC Comics universe. She’s loud, she’s all over the place, and I found her stupendously naive emancipation ( there was nothing fantabulous about it) completely unbelievable. Margot Robbie sells a volcano of energy, but it’s the kind of protagonist who sucks out your own life energy. Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn disappoints Poster of Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn). ![]() Sionis.įrankly, all it took for me to dislike Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey (2020) was about fifteen minutes of its beginning, and thus the rest of its runtime felt like a true torture. I’ll spare the details covering the plot, but Quinn manages to become the enemy number one of the entire mob world of Gotham, which in this case feels largely limited to Mr. That is also about time Cathy Yan introduces us to the film’s antagonist, Roman Sionis, who’s also known as Black Mask (Ewan McGregor). Without the backing of the Joker, Quinn jumps on a train of booze and partying, and it’s pretty much a more glittery collage of what HBO’s Euphoria (2019) portrayed in its beginning. J, and seeks her own place in Gotham’s underworld. The story begins shortly after Harley parts with Mr. Although Robbie mended the wounds inflicted by Ayer on the audience, Harley belonged to the henchmen league, and I just couldn’t shake that impression off.īut here we are, in 2020, when James Gunn takes over the bad guys squad in a remake coming soon, and Harley does, indeed, get her own feature film. Nonetheless, I was mildly interested in her standalone adventure, and the reason could be her limited backstory she’s been given in Suicide Squad (2016).
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