Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey

Undoubtedly one of the worst pieces of hyena shit I've ever seen on a screen. It's incoherent, unfocused, an absurd, ugly freak show that commits an even worse sin: it's boring, too. One has to draw the conclusion that there's just no hope for the DC franchise if this piece represents its ultimate direction. They can only go to the Batman well so often. Speaking of which, where the hell was he during all this mess? That's the problem with this sort of spinoff project: if the original big draw never shows up, the work inevitably feels like an obvious and low-rent knockoff. And this turd didn't need any help getting down to that level; it' so ineptly written and directed that even a most obvious sight gag, one that practically screams at the viewer that it's coming, never gets paid off. One wonders, were they even looking at their own set? Shame gets heaped upon a number of the participants: Ewen McGregor is better than this, Margot Robbie can be better than this (and has been). Only a true Generation AA moron could like this third-rate junk--which is a scathing indictment considering infinitely better movies from the same franchise came out a mere dozen or so years ago. Seriously, if you can't pull off a comic-book movie--pretty much the lowest of low-hanging fruit--with some amount of competence, you pretty much have to be done. How the allegedly mighty have fallen.