![]() ![]() Yan's use of light and color creates a refreshing and vivid look that is unlike any version of the usually gothic lens into the city we've seen on screens big and small so many times before. ![]() And she has a gift for kinetic fight scenes, though there are only so many creative-kill scenarios before the death toll becomes numbing. (Director Cathy) Yan, who colors her comic-book palette somewhere between the Crayola pop of Dick Tracy and the urban decay of Dark Knight, skips blithely from enhanced reality to full-on fantasy (most memorably, in a song-and-dance sequence with Robbie as a sort of punk-rock Marilyn Monroe). The rest of the time, it's stomping around on its figurative stilettos, spelling out its girl power message in loud and clear Morse code.īirds of Prey has a lot of masters to serve between emancipating Harley, setting up her antagonists, and establishing the other women crammed into that very long title, and unfortunately, the Birds of Prey are the ones who get shortchanged by the ambitious scope of this tale.īut 'BOP' Is Full Of Kinetic Energy And Visual Aplomb She's the best thing about Birds of Prey, and the movie feels somehow smarter and more subversive whenever she's onscreen. Huntress has the driest line delivery of all these women she's always just a little behind the beat, like a jazz chanteuse with zero Fs to give. Harley outshone her hellion comrades before, and she does the same thing here - though Mary Elizabeth Winstead, as the crossbow-wielding Huntress, has a fierce, cool, sizing-you-up implacability that's potent enough to be spinoff-ready. Robbie Shines As Harley Quinn, And Mary Elizabeth Winstead Steals The Show Among A Mostly Underutilized Cast
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