So the plot is this villain named Roman Sionis AKA Black Mask, wants this girl because she stole his diamond. That’s the plot. It’s simple. So everyone is wanting to protect the girl. Detective Montoya and Black Canary want to protect the girl (Cassandra Cain). While Harley Quinn is forced by Ronan Sionis to get back his diamond. Also the villain does put a half a million bounty on the girl’s head so every bad guy goes after her. By the end of the movie Huntress, Black Canary, the detective, and Harley Quinn team up to defeat Roman Sionis. Oh, and he has a right hand man named Victor Zsasz, who cuts marks on his body every time he kills someone.

This movie is really odd. Every man in this movie is portrayed as rude, obnoxious, pervs. Yeah, there are no bad female characters in this film. All the females in this film are good guys except for Harley Quinn. She is a mix of evil and good–she is basically Deadpool. Speaking of Deadpool, this movie is a knock off Deadpool. Harley Quinn breaks the fourth wall multiple times to the point where it becomes annoying. For instance, in one scene she is shooting cops in a police station and asking for the girl, and then the movie pauses and Harley Quinn starts talking and says “Hold up. I’m telling this all wrong. Let’s go back a week ago to show you why I’m hunting down this girl.” It gets so annoying. Also this movie shouldn’t be called Birds of Prey. It mainly focuses on Harley Quinn. Also this film is rated R for cussing and brutal violence.

The part I will warn you guys about is in the first 10 minutes when Ronan Sionis has his right hand man Victor Zsasz cut off someone’s face. That was a bit too much. Then the villain was about to let the guys daughter leave but then he said “Oh is that a snot bubble? Ew, I changed my mind, cut her face off.” I really can’t tell if that was supposed to be funny or not?. Also there are multiple scenes where Harley Quinn does break someone’s bones–meaning their limbs bend in positions that shouldn’t be possible. Also, half way through this movie, the plot screeches to a halt and just becomes filler, like where Harley Quinn takes Cassandra Cain shopping for food, then takes her back to her apartment to hangout and watch tv and meet her pet hyena named Bruce. Oh, and I know this is out of place, but the other plot of this movie is that Harley Quinn and the Joker break up, and now everyone she wronged including Roman Sionis wants her dead because Joker isn’t around to protect her. Also the villain is played by Ewan McGregor, and oh my God he does a great job. He is entertaining to watch: he throws a bit of a temper tantrum when he doesn’t get what he wants or if something doesn’t go the way he plans. He is definitely a menacing villain.

Now remember how I said all men are portrayed as pervs in this? Well, there is one moment near the end of the film where he sees a girl laughing and he thinks she is laughing at him, and he tells her to dance. Well, he forced her to dance, then he said “your dress is ugly.” Then he forced that girl’s friend to cut her dress off…yeah, no, that scene is a bit much. Luckily it doesn’t show him cutting the dress off, so I’m grateful for that. And no, it doesn’t show her naked–she holds her dress to stay on her–so again, glad the director didn’t go too far, but still it’s too much. At that point, I was like ‘oh God, ok, this is just wrong to watch.’ Because of the way all men in this film are portrayed, it ends up becoming way too cartoonish in my opinion.

Anyway, for a guy called Black mask, he doesn’t wear his mask till the last 20 min of the film, and he only wears it for like 5 min. In the comics, Black Mask’s mask is fused to his face, so this movie version is completely different. Anyways, bad guys blew up Harley Quinn’s apartment along with her hyena…until we find out at the end of the movie that the hyena is alive and was just wandering through Chinatown. Don’t ask how that’s possible: he was right near the bomb, so he logically should be dead. My best guess is he is alive because the script says so…

So the final battle happens in an amusement park–well, the final battle against Black Mask’s henchmen. There is a gag where Harley Quinn randomly had time to replace her shoes with skates and Black Canary asked “When did she have time to change her shoes?”….Good question. It never gets answered. Then a car chase happens…Black Mask takes away Cassandra Cain and Harley Quinn is chasing them on her roller skates. Then Black Mask ends up at some docks and Harley Quinn tries to kill him but–and I’m not joking–Cassandra Cain detonates a grenade that’s in Black Mask’s jacket and Harley Quinn pushes him in the ocean, and he blows up into bits. What a disappointment. He was a great and menacing villain that won’t return because he dies….sigh….

My favorite parts of this film are Harley Quinn and the action and comedy and Ewan McGregor as Ronan Sionis. The rest is bad: the plot is simple and the script makes the plot difficult by having Cassandra Cain swallow the diamond just so the movie has stakes. But in reality it really doesn’t. So our main characters go eat at a taco place and Harley Quinn and Cassandra Cain leave our other characters. And I’m not joking when they left that building, somehow Harley Quinn was in another outfit….with no explanation. This film has no end credits scene either. I give the film a 6/10.

Honestly if you put Ewan McGregor in any movie, it is good. I’m talking about the Star Wars prequels. He did a great job in those: he made those watchable. He did a great job in the prequels and in Birds of Prey and in the Dr. Sleep movie. I recommend Dr sleep. It’s a great sequel to The Shining. Now that movie gets a 10/10 in my opinion.