This was a super fun movie and a great palate cleanser after a month of dark, depressing Oscar nominees.Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) has broken up with the Joker and just wants to drown her sorrows. Unfortunately, her foray into independence means she no longer has the protection of being the Joker's girl and disgruntled foes start coming out of the woodwork to hunt her down. One of those being Roman Sionis (Ewan McGregor), a former trust fund kid ostracized by his family for his penchant of cutting people's faces off. Roman is looking for the Bertinelli diamond, a gem said to be inscribed with the bank accounts and secrets of the Bertinelli crime family, all tragically mowed down in a bloody coup some years back. The diamond is stolen by Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco), a teenage pickpocket. Harley makes a deal with Roman to recover the diamond, unaware that a Gotham detective (Rosie Perez) and Roman's driver/nightclub singer (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) are also looking for Cain. Meanwhile, completely unrelated but growing ever closer, is a mysterious woman in black killing people with a crossbow (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). These five women must put aside their differences and band together in order to save all their lives.
Yeah, the dudebros can suck a dick on this one. Birds of Prey is funny, colorful, and not interested in the male gaze at all. If you're butthurt about none of the characters getting naked or having to rely on a male character for fulfillment or help, you are not the target audience and kindly die in a fire. For everyone else, this is so much better than Suicide Squad and paves the way for more Harley movies as well as the soft reboot by James Gunn coming out next year.
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