With some great, all out performances, and a sheer sense of fun energy Birds of Prey makes for an entertaining comic book film that may not be totally original, but is certainly different from the rest. If Margot Robbie's and Ewan Mcgregor's performances weren't as great as what they were with the nice compliments of the characters costumes it would have been completely boring and cliched garbage. Overall, I found Birds of Prey to be a disappointment I came into this film very optimistic but got let down, due to the fact that this films writing was just plain bad. Also why is the film titled Birds of Prey? This is a Harley Quinn Movie, just like the trailers the Birds of Prey are barely in it and when they were they had small glimpses of being cool characters but for the most part they were some of the most cliched early 2000's era superhero characters I have seen since that era. They also butchered Victor Zsasz which I found extremely disappointing as I was looking forward to his inclusion in the DCEU, the way he was portrayed was nothing like how he is in the comics and it seems like he is just trying to be some knock off version of the Joker. The humour that they're going for doesn't work at all I chuckled maybe once, and it was the same for my theatre. However, This film has a lot of problems, most of the performances in this film are very shoddy, especially from Rosie Perez who is a walking cliche' as Renee Montoya (and I know that's what they were going for but it just doesn't work}, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Huntress who gives us some very cringey at times acting, and I think some of this has something to do with the screenplay which I also think is average at best. The use of colours and costumes I thought were great and I found some moments of entertainment through some of its action sequences. I will start off this review with the positive aspects first such as: Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn was a great casting and continues to be where I think she gives a better performance then her one in Suicide Squad, and Ewan Mcgregor plays a decent version of Black Mask. Follow Molly on Twitter and Instagram or contact her directly: molly(at)screenrant(dot)com.Birds of Prey: and the Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn, is a movie I had high hopes for but it fell flat. Still, she enjoys every chance to put her music and musical theater knowledge to good use, particularly when it intersects with her love of superhero movies.īeyond that, Molly spends her free time reading young adult and romance novels, rooting for the New York Rangers hockey team (LGR!) and going out to brunch. Previously, she’s written entertainment news for Bustle and had personal essays published on HelloGiggles and Femsplain.Ī graduate of Ithaca College’s Journalism program, Molly originally planned to be a music journalist before moving into entertainment journalism after spending so much of her downtime binge-watching all manner of movies and TV during her formative years. She’s been writing for Screen Rant since 2014 and has appeared on the Total Geekall podcast. Molly Freeman is the lead news editor of Screen Rant and one of Screen Rant’s Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer-approved movie critics. The movie being female-led even extended behind the camera, with Robbie serving as a producer and Cathy Yan ( Dead Pigs) directing from a script by Christina Hodson ( Bumblebee). Additionally, it was the DCEU's first fully female-fronted movie, with Robbie leading a cast that included Rosie Perez as Renee Montoya, Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Black Canary, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Huntress and Ella Jay Basco as Cassandra Cain. A loose spinoff from 2016's Suicide Squad - insofar as it follows Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) after the events of that movie - Birds of Prey wasn't the first R-rated superhero movie, but it was the first entry in the DC Extended Universe continuity to be rated R. HBO Max replaces the Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) R-rated cut with an edited TV-14 version on streaming. The unedited original version will be available instead. spokesperson confirmed that the broadcast cable version of Birds of Prey was mistakenly added to HBO Max.
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