Birds of Prey (2020)
2/10
Crazy Birds
28 November 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Although the title alludes to the group of anti-heroines, the main protagonist of this film is Harley Queen (Margot Robbie), who after the end of her relationship with Joker, is left without his protection and now has to struggle alone against every other evildoer who are after her for revenge. Her salvation is to team up with kingpin Roman "Black Mask" Sionis (Ewan McGregor) and capture the pickpocket girl Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco) who stole the very valuable Bertinelli diamond from Sionis's right-hand man Victor Zsasz (Chris Messina).

In between we have a lot of very poorly done action sequences that are nothing more than circus acrobatics where the villains do nothing but wait to be beaten, and very poorly filmed from angles where it is obvious that the blows don't land. The exposés throughout the film retreating to report things that the narrator Harley forgot to inform the viewer becomes tiring. All the characters are horrible and unpleasant in a very bad and irritating film. In the end, after overthrowing the patriarchy, they recover the diamond and the codes it contains from the bank accounts (how?) of the late Bertinelli family, money that Helena Bertinelli, The Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), uses to finance the Birds of Prey. So, if the diamond belongs to The Huntress by right of inheritance, why was it Harley that took it and pawned it? 2 stars for the hyena Bruce and the Beaver doll, and that's enough.
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