Only McGregor and Robbie come out of this looking okay.
I seriously was enjoying the first 20-25 minutes of the movie. Then the storyline started and all the other characters started to be introduced and the movie totally nose dived.
I can see people praising the movie as being a mile a minute entertainment and how it went straight into the action and pulls you along with a crazy storyline. I disagree, the movie has long stretches of nothing, repeated scenes of long drawn out flash back sequences to stuff we can easily guess or are just there because they're trying desperately to squeeze in the backstory for 4 new characters.
I found it a very boring movie. Most of the fight scenes are pretty bad and it's not hard to very quickly notice something a lot of people had an issue with. Whilst a lot of people don't like "woke" movies, which this definitely is, this movie actively seems to hate men. There isn't a single "good" man in the entire movie. The one man introduced as an angel, as the good example of a man...quickly betrays Harley out of no where.
Every villain is a man. Every goon is a man. There are plenty of female cops...but when they invade a police station, all those female cops vanish so it's all male cops being beaten up. There is a single "evil woman" who is a crazy woman who appears for 2 seconds and blows up off screen. They really try and imply Black Mask hates women because...well, I don't know. Harley just said he hates anyone with a vagina even though it's suggested he is gay and his most trusted aide is a woman and when murdering a group of people he lets the little girl live (before changing his mind when she blows snot at him).
Also, because every fight is against men when the Birds of Prey consist of 4 women, 1 of which is in her 60s from looking at her and is 4'8" and the other three all weigh 90lbs each, the fights are terrible for the most part. Where Terminator Dark Fate hired a woman who seems like she's about 6 foot tall and reasonably fit, this movie didn't even try.
Cassandra who is the 10 year old maguffin for this movie is the worst character. She's one step away from screaming about white privilege and the patriarchy with every line.
The movie is sexist which would've scored badly in itself because, well, I'm a dude and when the entire movie seems to hate me I'm not going to enjoy it, but mixed with how boring it was, how none of the characters were even close to likeable, how it just wasn't really funny most of the time, I can't score it higher than a 2.
I seriously was enjoying the first 20-25 minutes of the movie. Then the storyline started and all the other characters started to be introduced and the movie totally nose dived.
I can see people praising the movie as being a mile a minute entertainment and how it went straight into the action and pulls you along with a crazy storyline. I disagree, the movie has long stretches of nothing, repeated scenes of long drawn out flash back sequences to stuff we can easily guess or are just there because they're trying desperately to squeeze in the backstory for 4 new characters.
I found it a very boring movie. Most of the fight scenes are pretty bad and it's not hard to very quickly notice something a lot of people had an issue with. Whilst a lot of people don't like "woke" movies, which this definitely is, this movie actively seems to hate men. There isn't a single "good" man in the entire movie. The one man introduced as an angel, as the good example of a man...quickly betrays Harley out of no where.
Every villain is a man. Every goon is a man. There are plenty of female cops...but when they invade a police station, all those female cops vanish so it's all male cops being beaten up. There is a single "evil woman" who is a crazy woman who appears for 2 seconds and blows up off screen. They really try and imply Black Mask hates women because...well, I don't know. Harley just said he hates anyone with a vagina even though it's suggested he is gay and his most trusted aide is a woman and when murdering a group of people he lets the little girl live (before changing his mind when she blows snot at him).
Also, because every fight is against men when the Birds of Prey consist of 4 women, 1 of which is in her 60s from looking at her and is 4'8" and the other three all weigh 90lbs each, the fights are terrible for the most part. Where Terminator Dark Fate hired a woman who seems like she's about 6 foot tall and reasonably fit, this movie didn't even try.
Cassandra who is the 10 year old maguffin for this movie is the worst character. She's one step away from screaming about white privilege and the patriarchy with every line.
The movie is sexist which would've scored badly in itself because, well, I'm a dude and when the entire movie seems to hate me I'm not going to enjoy it, but mixed with how boring it was, how none of the characters were even close to likeable, how it just wasn't really funny most of the time, I can't score it higher than a 2.