Review of Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020) by Vds — 11 Apr 2020

So bad I couldn’t get to the end. And it was the main character, or perhaps the way she was portrayed, that made it so terrible. The nasally twang to her voice, her dumbness, her look. I know I’m not the target audience and it was probably a foregone conclusion that I wouldn’t like it all that much, but for a film to be so awful it’s unwatchable, that’s quite rare.

I think it was the point where Harley had drunk herself into a stupor, and was therefore at the mercy of the creep in the alleyway, that I realised I’d had enough. That and Ewen McGregor (was he just slumming it for the pay cheque?).

Maybe the end was spectacular and if I’d held on the movie would have redeemed itself. But I just couldn’t bear it. As it was, it took watching it (via iTunes) in three separate chunks to get to roundabout the halfway point.

If you thought Suicide Squad couldn’t get any worse, you were wrong.