![]() Unpredictable and untrustworthy, she leaves a trail of destruction in her wake as she tries to outrun her broken relationship with Joker as well as a city of people she’s royally pissed off at one time or another (her frequent meetings with them are highlighted onscreen with Name and Grievance written out in lurid pink and yellow). Margot Robbie is fabulous as the initially charming, thoughtlessly irrepressible, deeply troubled yet always self-reliant Harley Quinn. For much of it she’s still a fizz-bomb of reactions, with even her plan for the five women to work together a bright and breezy thought that pops into her head when Sionis’s masked army becomes overwhelming.Įlla Jay Basco as Cass and Margot Robbie as Harley And this film is really about her working out who she is in her own right, and moving on. Dumped by the Joker and desperate for closure, she blows up “their” chemical plant in a shower of fire and fireworks. ![]() Wow with a crossbow Helena Bertinelli, aka Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), has a bitter bloodsoaked past and is out for vengeance.īut, like Harley rewinding when it hasn’t come out quite how she meant, let’s go back to the beginning. Renee Montoya, Huntress, Harley Quinn, Cassandra Cain and Black CanaryĪll the women are skilled enough to get by on their own, and they don’t actually team up for ages, their paths crossing in a plot that made sense at the time but which I now can’t untangle in my mind.Ĭain is well-known already to detective Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez), a lover of 80s cop show dialogue (I waited patiently for a Cagney & Lacey reference to “Harvey Jnr” but alas none came), ground down by seeing her male partner take credit for her work.ĭinah Lance (the excellent Jurnee Smollett-Bell), also known as Black Canary, is a singer from Sionis’s club who saves Harley by beating up several men at once. Soon everyone is after orphan and diamond thief Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco), with Sionis putting a bounty on her head and advertising it to all the criminals in Gotham – and if that sounds a bit Wick-Like, imagine a magazine photo story about John having to fight his way out of Claire’s Accessories and that’s pretty much Birds of Prey. That diamond – even more valuable than your average multi-carat gemstone – has been stolen from Roman Sionis, aka Black Mask (a gleefully merciless Ewan McGregor), a properly pitiless villain and rampant narcissist and his brutal henchman Victor Zsasz (Chris Messina). What’s fun, and ear-splitting, is how they get there together.) (By the way this isn’t going to be a particularly spoilery review – and anyway with an action comedy like Birds of Prey you can probably work out how it ends. Everyone moves slightly in terms of trust and support, but essentially they don’t change that much.īy the end Harley simply slightly dials down the waywardness into something more akin to being a criminal big sister. Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Black Canary / Margot Robbie as Harley QuinnĪny delusions of a special femininity bonding them together are turned on their head, even as we think we recognise those tropes and maybe even want them.
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