Review:
I really didn't enjoy this film. The ridiculous action scenes and silly jokes really got on my nerves and Margot Robbie went a bit overboard as the crazy Harley Quinn. Ewan McGregor (Roman Sionis) was also a terrible baddie, and the soundtrack made the whole film seem like a bit of a joke. On the plus side, the Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) was brilliant and the chemistry between the girls, when they joined forces, was half decent but it's hard to find anything else positive about the film. As the DC franchise is in a right mess at the moment, this film really doesn't help matters, which is a shame because it sounded promising on paper. If they do agree to make another movie, they really need to tone down Harley Quinn, who seemed more mentally disturbed than anything. The whole back and forth in time thing was also annoying and the way that the girls took out big grown men with ease, made me cringe. As I haven't read the comics, I don't know how close this Harley Quinn is to the written one, but from an entertainment point of view, I really found it hard to watch. As far as I am concerned, if your going to have an action-packed movie with wit, the least that they could do is make it funny. Anyway, I won't be watching this movie again in a hurry, and it has to go down as one of the biggest let-downs of this year. Disappointing!
Round-Up: This movie was directed by Cathy Yan, who also brought you a movie called Dead Pigs, which I haven't seen or heard of. Now I know that these big studios are supporting these new up and coming directors, by giving them big-budget movies to work on as there first projects, but with DC in so many problems at the moment, they really needed someone in Christopher Nolan's league to save the franchise. I know that they wanted to make this an "all-women" affair, in terms of starring and working on this film, but I personally think that the final product was awful. The whole thing just seemed silly and unfunny, but it still made a decent profit at the box office, even though we are in the middle of a pandemic. With the critics and a majority of audiences around the world, completing slating the movie, I wonder if the big wigs behind the DC universe will finally listen to us because it's obvious that they are wasting time and money on these movies, which are definitely not working.
Budget: $84.5million Worldwide Gross: $202million
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime Cast: Margot Robbie, Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett, Ewan McGregor, Ella Jay Basco, Chris Messina, Ali Wong, Steven Williams and David Ury. 3/10
Round-Up: This movie was directed by Cathy Yan, who also brought you a movie called Dead Pigs, which I haven't seen or heard of. Now I know that these big studios are supporting these new up and coming directors, by giving them big-budget movies to work on as there first projects, but with DC in so many problems at the moment, they really needed someone in Christopher Nolan's league to save the franchise. I know that they wanted to make this an "all-women" affair, in terms of starring and working on this film, but I personally think that the final product was awful. The whole thing just seemed silly and unfunny, but it still made a decent profit at the box office, even though we are in the middle of a pandemic. With the critics and a majority of audiences around the world, completing slating the movie, I wonder if the big wigs behind the DC universe will finally listen to us because it's obvious that they are wasting time and money on these movies, which are definitely not working.
Budget: $84.5million Worldwide Gross: $202million
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime Cast: Margot Robbie, Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett, Ewan McGregor, Ella Jay Basco, Chris Messina, Ali Wong, Steven Williams and David Ury. 3/10