Reports have been suggesting that Birds of Prey has been flopping big time at the box-office. And I don’t understand for the life of me why that is. Well I have a few ideas.

First of all, I must say how much I enjoyed the film. I saw it on Wednesday, and it was such a fresh and fun film. It is the gemstone amongst DC’s mess of a cinematic universe.

I love the character of Harley Quinn. I’ve only seen her in the two DCEU films, but I love Margot Robbie’s take on her. She makes her a believable villain with a good backstory and it shows that girls can be just as villainous as boys as Harley is the girl equivalent to the Joker only more human like as we actually know her backstory and her name. I’m not including the 2019 film Joker here as it’s not DCEU.

In this film I felt like Margot Robbie gave an amazing performance as Harley who has just broken up with the Joker and is now on her own. She crosses paths with Crime Lord, Roman Sionis aka Black Mask (played brilliantly by Ewan McGregor) who enlists her to find a diamond for him. The rest of the Birds of Prey group are all linked to the diamond in different ways and they all end up as a group against Sionis.

Despite the plot being simple with no major plot twists, I felt like this film was fun and refreshingly fun film. It felt like it carried the aesthetic of Harley Quinn with the bubble-gum colours and the funky soundtrack fits it really well. It’s the chacters that carry the film and that’s what superhero films are usually about.

I think that this film has been flopping because it is directed by a woman and has a female led cast with a love intertest and many people just rent ready for a film where a girl has to fall in love with someone.

I recommend that you go se this film even if you’re not a DC fan. Personally, I’m not a big fan of DC bit I thoroughly enjoyed this film and it both fixed and added to Harley Quinn’s character.

Rating – 9/10

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