![]() Like hiring a director who only directed a single project before this that wasn't short form content, and was rated 6.8, by far the highest rating in her small portfolio. Huntress is pretty intimidating and dark in the comics, but while her backstory stayed true to the original, the way the character is written, cas and acted here, nobody would be intimidated by THIS take on the character, it's a joke, just like Victor Zsasz in this movie. My point being: Only the names are the same, but nothing else. Like hiring a writer (Hodson) whose previous 3 writing credits were rated between 4.8 and 6.7 and who seems to think she knows better than the original writer of the comic, Chuck Dixon who had 10 years of writing credits specifically in the comic scene before working on Birds of Prey, because not only is a redhead (Babs) once again denied an appearance on the screen, but she basically changed everything else about birds of prey too except for characters by the names of Black Canary, Helena Bertinelli and Cassandra Cain being involved, but in the original comics, Cassandra was a mute and illiterate martial arts goddess when she came to gotham, while she's just a regular, literate, speaking, very unathletic, defenseless teenage kid here, and Black Canary never worked any shady jobs in the comics, but worked as a florist. Starting with some of the earliest decisions when making a film. Reviewed by theunrevealed 1 / 10 Painful to endure for a comic reader and action movie fan I could continue, but we would be here all day. The costumes were ugly and impractical, the effects were unfinished, the action scenes had inconsistent physics and logic, the editing was distracting. Hopefully the poor box office outcome will drill that into the minds of these filmmakers, as absolutely nothing worked in this movie. An objectively good story trumps a subjectively preachy message any day, and the product will ultimately better withstand the test of time. If it was meant to happen, it will happen naturally. ![]() Just let the themes speak for themselves. It would have been unneeded if they took a lesson from cinema's more iconic female-lead action films, such as Kill Bill, Terminator, and Alien. Critics are drooling over the "girl power" politics, but it was way too on-the-nose. ![]() In fact, nothing about this movie seemed to serve the plot. Not to mention that Robbie made an obnoxious mess of herself in an attempt to be fun, Smollett-Bell's Black Canary had an absurd twist that contributed to the product's overall inconsistencies, and McGregor's wonderfully hammy eccentricities were diminished by a shoehorned in evilness that never served the plot other than to make him into the "sleazy white misogynist" stereotype. I have directed grade-school actors that could sell a character better than them. To say that those three were poorly cast would be an understatement. Good performances within the context of good characters (Messina's Zsasz, Winstead's Huntress) were horribly under utilized, while atrocious performances (Perez, Wong, Basco) seemed to hog all the screen time. However, the worst aspect was the performances in relation to the writing. ![]() The structure was all over the place and none of the jokes landed. Its problems start and end with the writing. It is a heavy statement to say that a film is one of the worst in the DCEU, but this one may very well take the cake.
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