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Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (2020)
Not a high quality popcorn movie
I've always liked the take on Harley Quinn's character played by Margot Robbie in the DCEU. Had a somewhat decent expectation approaching this film, and well... it has certainly exceeded my expectations, not in a good way though.
I can forgive this movie having a forgettable boring plot, tbf we aren't watching superhero movies to get enlightened. Then again this film present you with a groups of unlikable, unoriginal characters: the mid-age policewoman running around achieving nothing, an annoying kid with family issues who is the McGuffin and being a pain in my ass half of the runtime, an assassin woman with cheesy revenge backstory introduced halfway into the film, a singer/driver woman with hidden superpower reveled in a deus ex machina fashion. Thanks to the writers, even Harley Quinn is somehow crazier and stranger in this film.
Its a mass-produced superhero film catering towards younger female audiences, has decent fighting choreograph, standard CGI performance, has a few good sound tracks and that's about all the good things i can say about it. Watched it because of Harley Quinn, and walked out realizing I don't actually like her that much. If there's one character benefited from this movie, it has to be the Joker, Birds of Prey made me understand he's choice to dump Harley.
Overall maybe 5 or 4 out of 10.