Margot Robbie created a cult character with her portrayal of the iconic Joker sidekick, Harley Quinn, in Suicide Squad. It is often overlooked that the character is once again degraded from a tragically broken personality to a gaudy, over-the-top nerd fetish.
In 2020, Birds of Prey: The Emancipation of Harley Quinn was released, which you can now stream on Netflix with a subscription. The solo film for Robbie’s character is a skilful liberation from the joker dependency while also unleashing brutal action from the John Wick genius.
Birds of Prey reinvents Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn
Director Cathy Yan’s film opens straight away with a scene in which Harley and the Joker’s relationship comes to a hard end. Despite the pain of separation, the protagonist emerges as a strengthened, self-determined protagonist.
With one of your own Gang of women ready to fight like Dinah (Jurnee Smollett), Montoya (Rosie Perez) and the hardened crossbow killer Helena (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), she takes on villain Roman Sionis (Ewan McGregor).
The action in Birds of Prey is the highlight. The reason for this is that these sequences were taken over by the John Wick studio 87Eleven. John Wick 4 director Chad Stahelski even directed some of the action scenes in the DC movie himself.
If Sledgehammers, needles or homemade grenade launchers are used, pleasant memories of the Keanu Reeves franchise quickly come to life. Birds of Prey succeeds in combining this form of brutal action with brightly colored cartoon images. The result is a crazy, entertaining DC trip that is definitely worth it.
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