raven-sirius

There is potentially a story idea here which was attempted but lost to 2nd year filmaking mistakes. The acting is acting, , the vfx are corny and last century, and the low budget techniques are pretty obvious. There is an attempt to dress the movie up with young and pretty actresses, which for the most part are young and pretty, but you would be better off walking the dog or spending quality time with family and friends than devoting any real attention to this movie.

I can't say Margot Robbie's jarring Brooklyn accent was any stronger than it was in Suicide Squad, even if I can say it was more jarring, but she is Australian. Add the accent to my dislike of the continuous narrative voice over film model (show don't tell) and it was not the easiest film to get into. But eventually the action began to take over. The humour was evident, and I did have a few loud snickers, even if there were not many belly laughs (possibly because of the voice over). Was Harley the crazed, antic filled, zane-master any true fan of her infamy has come to rely on? Y...e...s... but with a heavier dose of pathos than one could normally feel for the traditional DC villain

The story's divergence from the original DC'verse is not a bad thing when one remembers this is not a 'DC' film. Will it ever stand up next to DC canon, or is it more of what Sony's Fantastic Four is to the Marvel'verse? Probably the latter, but that does not make this a bad film, because it does diverge from the traditional DC with a more modern and workable ideal of female empowerment.

Predictable? Yes. Dark? Yes. Spooky? At times. Acting? Yes. Should Billy Eylish sue for the way they mixed out the end credits? For every penny the production company has. It does not matter if authority to use her track was approved. The way it was treated was a travesty of sound engineering. Even bad radio jocks don't mix from track to track with an audible clunk in between. It's unfortunate that the way the end credits are treated are an example of the effort put into the film. If they appeared at the beginning I would have walked out.

But the movie itself was okay.