![]() This is usually the staple action heroine cliches with the women who love them. I, though, see how the team here took its female characters that simply don’t give a damn what the world thinks of them. Yes, most of the male villains are incredibly over the top, not delightfully so it can’t cause eye-rolls. Along with writer Christina Hodson, who penned Bumblebee, and is about setting the tone for DC this decade with The Flash (2022) and Batgirl (TBA), she has an undeniable tone all its own - more so than most other DC or even Marvel fare. They all want one thing, a diamond that a talented child pickpocket named Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco) swiped from Zsasz, which leads to a glitter storm inside a police precinct to get it back.īirds of Prey was directed by Cathy Yan, who has a limited filmography but brings the same sort of dark quirkiness she did with her only feature to her name, Dead Pigs. If that wasn’t enough, a righteous cop (played by Rosie Perez), is looking forward to taking her down for the public good, the Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) wants to put an arrow between her eyes, and the only person who seems to be on her side is the Black Canary (Jurnie Smollett-Bell, breaking out here). Even his henchman, Victor Zsasz (Chris Messina), is so vain he loves a good facelift. She is now a woman at large, in particular from egomaniac, sociopath crime boss, Black Mask, played with an extra heaping spoonful of “douchebaggery” by Ewan McGregor. Robbie reprises her role in the hopes of jump-starting a second successful franchise for DC, and they hit the mark, for the most part. Now Harleen is on the run from all sorts of men, you know because I imagine some women love a good chase. This actually makes her endlessly interesting, with her anti-social tendencies, and manages to put them aside (kind of) because we all need friends, a support system, even a toxic one. It’s a big step for her since she has had one of the worst recent dependent disorders the world has ever known. Puddin, though, is nowhere to be found in Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation Of One Harley Quinn), even if I’m sure his own emotional incontinence is now in hyperdrive, and HQ is the missing prescription. Quinn and the Clown Prince of Crime called it quits, she didn’t handle it all too well. There is nothing like a messy break-up to find out who your friends are. Birds of Prey flips that script and you won’t find a bleeding heart in this group. This is what most fanboys won’t admit - all they know are comic book films dominated by male characters with attitudes that don’t give a damn. ![]()
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