Ok to have watched it once, not really one I want to watch again, and I’m not even sure why. She was fun, but there were too many things, it was a bit of a mess.
Absurdly, one of the scenes I liked more was when Zsazs spoke with Roman like he wanted to protect him… but the film doesn’t really show why, he simply appeared to be one of the thugs, one of many on Roman’s payroll, until that scene lets you think they have a special bond. But I didn’t get anywhere that they were anything at all, not even his confidante, not even his most trusted thug…
Also, the Montoya character was a bit boring in a movie like this, and even Black Canary and the Huntress were not given the right atmosphere… I don’t know how to say it, but in a Batman movie he doesn’t just enter a room, no hero just enters a room, they have a hero entrance, even if they just appear and do nothing, the camera and the lights and the music, everything works to give you a du-dun effect, to make you go WOW the hero just arrived… and I know that these girls were not heroes like Batman, we didn’t know any of them, but they should have had something, just something to make their entrance cool and to tell us that they’re going to be heroes or at least important on the heroes side…
Yeah, I think that’s what was missing here.
It starts with a brokenhearted Harley, she broke up with the Joker for good. Before, when they were together, she sort of had immunity because everyone was scared of him, but then when the old “Ace Chemicals” goes up in flames because of her, everybody learns the truth, and now they all want her head.
Roman is the big baddie, Dinah Lance is the singer in his club, but she becomes his driver after he sees her fighting. That’s because a drunk out of her mind Harley was about to get carried inside a van by two guys, so Dinah saved her.
Cassandra is a young thief, with a history of really bad foster parents, and she lives in the same building as Lance. She’s really good at pickpocketing, and she takes a small box with a diamond inside from Czas’ pocket.
The Huntress is the only survivor of the Petrinelli or Bertinelli family, a name like that, and she hunted and killed all those who had a part in her family’ s deaths. Czas is the last one now, the fifth.
Montoya is a cop but she has really bad people-skills; she’s really good at investigating but she has no friends and nobody likes her. Her boss takes all the credit for her work, that’s actually how he became her boss, and then he suspends her because she keeps breaking the rules to follow her leads.
She even acts surprised but truthfully she has a bad attitude, especially with her ex. Montoya even acts like the wounded party when her ex warns her boss of what she did (which is why she got suspended) but really, she keeps using her ex without ever asking beforehand, and never apologising afterwards. She does what she wants because she thinks she’s in the right, working for the greater good, so rules should not count for her…
Csazs is Roman’s man, they’re very close, Zsazs behaves like Roman is his love to protect and make happy.
Everyone is hunting Harley, even Montoya who makes her drop her beloved breakfast egg sandwich.
Harley adopts a hyena that she calls Bruce like Bruce Wayne, and when the guy wants to be paid in nature, she has the hyena eat him.
When Roman catches her, she offers to find the diamond for him if he lets her live, and to this end she breaks into the police station because she knows Cass has been arrested. She takes Cass away, to her home.
Harley rather likes Cass and they talk a lot at her place. She lives above Doc’s diner, or whatever, and talks about him like he’s the only one who cares about her for real, and that’s why she’s hurt when he sells her out. That’s how the baddies find her, because they offered him lots and lots of money to tell them where she was, so he did and now he leaves.
Now Harley decides she’ll give Cass to Roman in exchange for him stopping everyone else from hunting her, for them to leave her alone.
Montoya approaches Lance because her mother was an informant - and she died because of it.
Lance starts helping her when Cass enters the picture, because she wants to help the girl. So now she warns her of an impending meeting/trap between Roman and Harley. All Roman wants is the diamond, he cares nothing about their lives.
There’s some kind of abandoned amusement park, Lance and Zsasz go there and he sees one of her message and phones Roman to tell him that she is the spy. Roman wants to go in person, wants to make her pay, and he wears his black mask… just because he likes it, I guess, it doesn’t seem to have any power at all.
Harley meets with Montoya, Lance and Helena, who kills Zsaszs and she’s like ‘my job is doen, I’m sorry’ but Montoya stops her to tell her that it’s not done, that Roman gave the orders, or the money, whatever, to kill her family.
Roman and a lot of men are here for them, so Harley suggests they work together to get out alive. They fight all the men who came inside, but outside there’s to many of them. Roman gets Cass and drives away, and Lance has to use her superpower: her supersonic voice, to knock everyone out, herself included (exhaustion maybe). Harley and Helena go after Roman and Cass, take out everyone else, then Cass tells her that she took her ring - meaning a hand granade that she activated, so Harley kicks him off the bridge and he goes up in pieces.
Now victorious, the three women get the diamond which held the secret codes of Helena’s family’s money, and they fight crime together. Harley is by herself, and with Cass, and they go away together. With Bruce, still alive.
At the end, she says “they call themselves the Birds of Prey, I call them dorky little do-gooders”, and also “I made the kid my apprentice. Call me a softy. I dare ya”.
P.s. when they were fighting, Lance had her hair all over her face, like it would happen if it were real, so Harley gave her a hair tie for it. Not sure why it’s relevant but it was nice.
Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn
Rosie Perez as Renee Montoya
Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Helena Bertinelli
Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Dinah Lance/Black Canary
Ewan McGregor as Roman Sionis
Ella Jay Basco as Cassandra Cain
Chris Messina as Victor Zsazs
Ali Wong as Montoya’s ex girlfriend (Ellen, I think)
ITA Birds of Prey e la fantasmagorica rinascita di Harley Quinn
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