I would like to preface this review by saying I am a massive DC Comics nerd and also a man, so all these guys saying that "only feminist women who don't understand the comics like this movie" are completely wrong.

The hate this movie gets makes no sense to me at all. This is a stylish, superhero comedy with excellent directing, acting and action. The cinematography during fight scenes was just beautiful and the fact that they are allowed to show graphic violence makes them so brutal.

Also, the comedy lands so well. It's so strange to me to see the same people who give Deadpool and Guardians of the Galaxy high ratings give this such a low one, in my opinion it tops Deadpool in the comedy department.

I would say the only weakness in this movie (for me) was the portrayal of Black Mask, only simply because I prefer his comic counterpart. That being said, I don't mind most of the changes to these characters in comparison to the comics, I thought Margot Robbie's performance as Harley was absolutely fantastic, it really shows of her version of Harley without that awful script that was Suicide Squad. Jurnee Smollett gives such a strong performance as Canary, while I know she is very different in the comics, I liked the different approach to the character. Mary Elizabeth Winstead did a great job, I just wish they had fleshed her out a bit more, but still she was very good and had an intriguing backstory. Ella Jay Basco gives one of the most convincing child performances I've seen in a while, it would be really cool to see her as batgirl one day. Lastly, Rosie Perez was great as Montoya, who I was happy to see finally get a big role in a movie since she plays a big part in many comic stories and the animated series. Comic book movies change characters all the time, I don't know why everyone cares so much with this movie specially.

I seriously do not understand the hate, here we have a movie that doesn't give a crap and is willing to show us some graphic fight scenes with great choreography and comedy which lands and isn't cringy, like in previous DCEU films, and some great performances, and every hates it. I'm 99% sure that this movie is just hated because men have to hate movies dominated by females for some reason. I'm not trying to say this movie is The Dark Knight but it's strong in a lot of aspects and succeeds in what it's trying to be. For Christ sake guys, it's not trying to be the Godfather, why are your reviews so harsh.

Greetings from Lithuania.

"Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn" (2020) movie was as ridiculous as its title. Besides of some action scenes, this movie was boring, bland, not funny and simply snooze fest. I forced myself into watching it during a whole week, like 10 min per day because it was highly uninvolving little flick. The script here is poor, there was nothing that resembled a interesting plot.

Overall, just like "Suicide Squad" this movie did not worked at all. DC really needs to start hiring real talents behind the camera because if they will continue this way, soon there won't be many viewers.

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. Its problems start and end with the writing. The structure was all over the place and none of the jokes landed. However, the worst aspect was the performances in relation to the writing. 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. To say that those three were poorly cast would be an understatement. I have directed grade-school actors that could sell a character better than them. 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.

In fact, nothing about this movie seemed to serve the plot. Critics are drooling over the "girl power" politics, but it was way too on-the-nose. 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. Just let the themes speak for themselves. If it was meant to happen, it will happen naturally. An objectively good story trumps a subjectively preachy message any day, and the product will ultimately better withstand the test of time. Hopefully the poor box office outcome will drill that into the minds of these filmmakers, as absolutely nothing worked in this movie. Nothing at all.

The costumes were ugly and impractical, the effects were unfinished, the action scenes had inconsistent physics and logic, the editing was distracting. I could continue, but we would be here all day. Just...shame, shame on all of you.