All the women are strong (badass) fighters, but with very different characters and motivations, and each of them stands out individually and holds their own on the screen, with none of them coming off as the weak link. Cassandra Cain’s character is endearing yet amusing with her slick pickpocketing skills and childish enthusiasm. The movie does a great job of portraying all of these characters. Enter Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), former singer at Black Mask’s club, and now driver, who is attempting to save her neighbor Cassandra from Black Mask’s brutality. The quest for this diamond is what sets up the plot of the entire movie, and this is where the rest of the “birds” in Birds of Prey come in. In search of this diamond, he places a bounty on whoever brings him teenage pickpocket Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco), who unknowingly swipes the diamond from Zsasz, releasing Harley Quinn on the condition she finds the girl and retrieves the diamond. His main object of fancy in this movie is the “Bertinelli diamond” which supposedly has the whereabouts of all of Gotham’s Mafia family’s wealth. Though comical in his exaggeration, McGregor is able to still make his character’s whimsical actions dangerous and keep the stakes of losing to him high until the end. Without the protection of being Joker’s girlfriend, Harley has a huge target on her back with every person she ever wronged (and there are many of them) seeking retribution, including the movie’s villain, Black Mask (played by Ewan McGregor), the only one of them who successfully captures her.īlack Mask himself is a bit unstable, in the fashion of a bored, entitled, rich man-child: He makes unreasonable requests solely for his entertainment, is quick to throw tantrums whenever they are not met and constantly needs his henchman/“BFF”, Victor Zsasz (Chris Messina) to babysit him. She then helped him break out of Arkham Asylum, and then jumped in a vat of toxic chemicals to prove her love for him (all of which is explained in a short animated montage that she narrates early on in the story, because origin stories are so last decade). Harleen Quinzel, MD, PhD, fell crazy in love with her psychiatric patient, the Joker. ![]() The movie begins with Harley struggling to cope with her breakup with the Joker - dealing not only with the heartbreak, but also a loss of identity, because after all, Harley Quinn was born after Dr. This movie really is an emancipation for Harley Quinn because, put in the limelight, her irreverent persona, portrayed amazingly by Margot Robbie, shines throughout the movie (spoilers ahead). ![]() Much like Deadpool after his terrible portrayal in X-Men, Harley Quinn’s iconically maniacal character is finally done justice in Birds of Prey after her overly sexualized, one-dimensional introduction in Suicide Squad. Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey, also known as Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), may just be DC’s answer to Deadpool - pure unapologetic R-rated action entertainment.
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