Birds of prey it is not Group Suicide respectively. Not DC and Warner Bros. & # 39; follow until Joker. It's definitely not a great comedy movie, except for the fact that it includes comic strips. Hell, depending on your watch eye, whether or not it is Birds of prey movie it can be controversial. But here's the thing: Whelmet Birds of prey , he is big, light, and fun like all hell.
Though it was released after it was released JokerS seasonal prize, Birds of prey—or, to give it its full, appropriate title, The Birds of Hunger (and the Most Wondrous Elimination of Harley Quinn)-It really doesn't matter at all in any Todd Philips film it was something or something you were trying to do, except that it was also starting to get rid of Jared Leto's "wrong" translation Group Suicide, thanks nowhere to be found here. While Joker do so metatextually, Birds of preyComposition is defined in a literal sense, as Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), tired of doing all the work of a criminal officer, she cuts all the tires, romantic and professional, to make her way. He made an explosion-like explosion, setting fire to the chemical factory that the Joker had transformed from Harleen Quinzel, the Arkham Psychiatrist, to his Harlequin.
That is, it tends to its purest essence, what Birds of prey is: a conquering woman, surrounded by a blast of color, free to care nothing in the world but herself.
It's at this time of explosion—the is the first of many director Cathy Yan's glorious slo-mo and poppy, eclectic sound decisions—thelmet Birds of prey introduces its world and characters drawn to Harley's entrance. While emphasizing his claim away from the Joker, many people in Gotham City realize that he no longer has his own name to protect him. That means, all of a sudden, everyone from Gotham PD to every two thugs in town wants to take revenge on the often painful work of healing.
Among them are the Roman Sionis (Ewan McGregor, who plays his best spot on his enemies as he begins to watch), a.k.a. Black Mask. After having the diamond in his hands, holding the key of the mafia family's money, stolen by a compelling orphan named Cass (Ella Jay Basco), he gives Harley a conclusion: Fauction, find a diamond, or steal killed by Sionis and his criminal accomplice, the happy Victor Zsaz (Chris Messina).
This setup is complicated and originally set in a complicated way. In the first act of the text, we arrive on time and get closer as we pull some of the main characters into the circle of Harley, Cass, and Rome's circle. We are the last introduction to be Birds of prey: Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), an artist in the Zionis & # 39; s club who is unsure whether to use his hidden power or good; Detector Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez), an experienced cop who is overlooked by office politics and wishes to pull Sionis out of it; and the Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), who killed a Gotham terrorist by not retaliating for revenge.
But they are all presented in particular of their relationship with Harley and Cass & # 39; s grief. It means that not only is the opening of the film rather slow, except for the clip used for the clipping here and there (including attacks by Gotham PD), but unfortunately it doesn't really know the course of the film except for how Harley sees them. And in the early stages of the story, Harley essentially sees women as obstacles along the way between her, Cass, and survival.
Fortunately this is a slow start and, at times, a fantastic narrative setup is opposed by some Birds of preyExcellent quality photos. First up is a great performance by Robbie (continuing to own this role in a seemingly insignificant kind of favor, after a good deal in the midst of the complexity that existed) Group Suicide), who takes her Group Suicide It's a Harley genre and includes a funny and funny way at 11. The actor / producer carries it Birds of prey& # 39; Slightly discounted with aplomb, and married a colorful rendition of Yan & # 39; s Glectam City in these early times. Yan's use of color and light creates a refreshing and vivid look that is unlike any other typical gothic app in town we've seen on the big and small screens. many times before. This Gotham brings a visual pop that feels almost the most expensive cut in the world music video compilation to match its bright and thoughtless star.
Robbie and Jan also capture the finest and most versatile movie feature from the get-go, from chase sequences to brutal action scenes (reportedly helped by
It's the power that keeps the movie from being memorable to being an unpleasant rollercoaster, often a thriller that marries a bizarre spirit with an incredibly powerful, expressive action. But they were kicked off the high gear when the film finally reunited their character for years, and they might be happy to let the women break up and, to be cruel, beat their enemies further. moments of intense passion and blossom as some of the best in the DC cinematic oeuvre. CGI-at best, the supernatural destruction of the superficial temporal lore of the previous films, replaced by the intense, muscular, and brutal violence that emerged from time to time and the size of the comic book.
It is for this action that Birds of prey it empowers her female lead. The film makes it clear that its messages of frustration are what these women each feel about their place in society – even though Harley is frustrated that the Joker has not given him credit for his work, compared to a job shocked by Montoya in the Gotham police department, Cass & # 39; the lack of a home-built space, or the brutal Sionis and Zsasz keep harassing Dinah just as much as she tries to do her job, no matter how harsh the men are. But that's not the point Birds of prey it lasts a long time, compensating for the tendency to reduce the character of women by giving them often single-minded witches by invading ancestry or fighting man (and doing so as a girl, as the perpetrator often was). Instead, they simply …do. He understands the injustices each of these women face in their lives without being constantly reminded of such injustices, and is instead invited to lead them to avenge themselves through tactical violence.
Finally, under the increasing beams and strengthening threads that eventually pull these main characters together through the film, come learn more about each titular antique group and why they will come together visually, with reasons ranging from touching to sometimes bizarre. For some viewers, it will be too late. As with most superhero movies at this point, birds of Prey do not they were The Birds of Hunger until the final act of the film, and while that makes for some great moments of interaction between each group when they finally meet, they can feel few and far between, especially as the film relies on digging into the long-running relationship between Cass and Harley, who was the last promoter on the way to her, as he puts it, much less of a scary person.
But either Birds of prey it takes a while to go with its characters up to that point, rewarded with one of the most exciting third acts in DC film thus far, a showdown between Sionis & # 39; s troops in an abandoned park that fully embraces the beauty of its suspension to fully open our heroes uniforms. It's here that Jan's action scene really shines, as the camera whips around the home mirrors, the carnival slides, and the trampoline-filled food stalls highlight Harley and the birds kicking ass and, above all, having it's fun while doing so. It is a welcome adaptation of the comic book style, otherwise it is drawn to some kind of source material but removes it from the distraction of the bright color, where the senses, and the happy, great satisfaction of its heroes escape the bloody justice.
In the end, that's really it Birds of prey . It doesn't matter if it is a DC movie about a group of female heroes, and how this is somehow an annoying, clever 2020 thing. It's the first time we've watched a killer action movie that just happens to be a beautiful and powerful star of female characters – though for the most part they say the distribution should continue around Robbie's on-screen intellectuals like Harley Quinn, and we really know them (there will always be a place in respectively, at least). Apart from- opening slightly and not as much time with the Birds as it will really be, Birds of prey introduces to one of thema clever laser-focused goal: to make a comic book action movie that is an exaggerated, visual explosion that you can watch.
Birds of prey hits theaters on February 7th.
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