The Emancipation Of Margot.
109 Mins. Starring: Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Rosie Perez, Ella Jay Basco, Ali Wong, Chris Messina & Ewan McGregor. Director: Cathy Yan.
Fantabulous fun. Fantastic news. Marvel, Marvel, Mar...ahhh who gives a f###?! I may love the M.C.U., but like Heath Ledger's 'Dark Knight' Joker wanting to be locked in there, there's more to it than all that. We may love all the Avengers have assembled since then with 2008's 'Iron Man' 3000, but the marvelling fun has always been offset perfectly by the dark designs of DC. They've always needed each other like Schwarznegger and Stallone, the Lakers and the Celtics, The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Batman and the Joker. The Joker and Harley Quinn. Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey. And now DC have two Oscar winning Joker's out the pack in the late, legendary Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix's Best Actor. And that's before we get chance to get to the former Jack Nicholson standard set and even the 'Partyman' Prince ladies and gentlemen. But for all the Caesars and Skywalker deals that have played the Clown Prince of Crime, there seems to be only one that can play the jezabel jester by his side, Miss Harley "Freaking" Quinn. And that's the 'Bombshell' of the Australian Academy Award winning actress of 'The Wolf Of Wall Street', 'Once Upon A Time In...Hollywood' and of course 'Suicide Squad' (sorry Jared), Margot Robbie, who right now rules with this and the blonde 'Bombshell' scandal of the Fox News scandal. Rolling around an amusement arcade of candy colour with her hammer and the blades of fury as she goes all 'I Tonya' on people's legs again. No one could play Harley quite like Robbie. It feels like she was Robert Downey as Tony Stark, or Hugh Jackman as Logan born to do it. And with everything changing on the 'Guardians Of The Galaxy' director James Gunn's 'The Suicide Squad' sequel (sorry again Jared) like Idris Elba and Will Smith going shot for shot, its great that Quinn (rounding up the "we're stuck with each other" troops like Star Lord) and her suicide girls survive the fallout of David Ayer's fun film, that in his production has a fury of dirty and dark ultraviolence like McQueen 'Widows' still held over here like fingers on the trigger. Especially with Robert Pattinson stepping into Batman's cowl and cave following the twilight of Ben Affleck's brilliant Bruce Wayne turn and time. But just like Bat's needing a killing joke. Or this man's world being nothing without a woman or a girl, as the Black Canary of Jurnee Smollett-Bell siren sings and spreads her wings as strong as when the 'Empire' of her brother Jussie sang for 'Freedom' and 'Hurt People', the Joker and DC would be nothing without the wonder of its real leading lady in this 'Deadpool' (stick around in your bathrobe for the "patience" of her "what are you still doing here" post credit sting too) anti-hero like fourth wall breaking year of '1984' (you wish...right now that Orwell time even seems more welcome than this 2020 we're just three months into...oh brother). Time to eat ice cream and watch this year's number one break up movie pudding.
BOP it! It's hammer time. She's the one you should be scared of...BOO! Not you. Not Mr. J. Harley F###### Quinn! As Daddy's Little Monster ditches the sentimental value of that fan girling t-shirt for a canary candy feathery look and gold dungarees, before returning to the classic costume for Gunn's squad sequel sometime this Summer. But there's more symbolism to this costume change from Quinzel for this harlequin that we really give two s###s about beyond this. Her role is no longer to serve. And no longer to be the symbol of the toxic relationship and victim manipulation between the cruel playing hands of The Joker who really is a complex character (that's why the jokes on two Oscars already), but not a "cool" one (no laughing matter really), as the first 'Suicide' got it wrong, almost glamourising an abusive relationship that fans in Joker and Harley cosplay idolized like "this could be us" (NO! I guess you really are playing). Margot though knows better. Now THAT'S emancipation. The only crying she does over here with a baseball bat in iconic slow motion is over trying to save a sandwich like your 'Friend' Joey...and just wait until all 'John Wick' hungry for revenge she goes all "Red Ross" over it ("myyyy saaaandwiiich"). Just like M.R. knows the pale complexion of this H.Q. characters skin ashes to dust, fighting for it to the death. Robbie with her own classic cackle for that Joker like iconic laugh is dynamite as Quinn as soon as she lights the fuse for a film that feels like the spark of one throughout. As cropping her bombshell with shearing scissors, Harley focuses like Margot's scene stealing power crime couple movie with Will Smith. Scarf screen starlet walking into a police station behind the shades of a 'Once Upon A Time' Hollywood icon that she really is, before bean bag putting the cop behind the desk back in his chair. Unleashing a shotgun shot full of purple smoke and candy glitter that takes out the whole precient like if 'The Terminator' promised not to kill anyone in the first movie with sensational set-piece powerful puncuation. No one said anything about breaking any legs however and just you wait until the sprinkler systems comes on and Quinn batter up gets her Louisville slugger back like Lucille. There's going to be a lot of walking dread. Swing away Margot! As knocked out and singing in a diamonds and pearls, pink cashmere fever dream, dancing with henchman, Margot has a ball as Harley. Lip-syncing and jazz hands waving like a Cyndi Lauper, 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun', blonde Marylin Monroe like Hollywood icon she really is. Margot Robbie is the quintessential Dr. Quinn like medicine woman. Now tell me you don't want to ride with this Harley my sons and daughters of anarchy?
Anarchic chaos from the agent of action chereography in heel ass kicking form from formidable 'Dead Pigs' director Cathy Yan, all to a 'Hit Me With Your Best Shot' sick soundtrack covering Dean Martin's 'Sway'. With the terrific Édith Piaf 'Hymne à l'amour' screen sirens trailer that with the 'It's Oh So Quiet' Bjork second blows a fuse like the rhapsody of that Queen 'Suicide Squad' one. Forget sticking a superhero landing. I haven't seen fights this good in a DC OR Marvel movie and Captain America and Iron Man went to 'Civil War' blows with everyone in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Thor went for round two with Banner on a Planet Hulk, all like Batman vs Superman. But in this dawn of injustice for the antihero anti-cape crusading movie how's this for an assemble? This picture perfect is a pleasant surprise like good morning new 'Charlie's Angels', as this goes full throttle. Now how are these for agents? There's 'Gemini Man' actor Mary Elizabeth Winstead's Hawkeye arrow sharp Huntress in these hunger games, table kicking and blocking goons like you should that old, good for nothing ex-boyfriend on Facebook. Shooting from the hip on the back of a chopper and finally showing the action hero she was always meant to be after 'Die Hard 4.0', before the fifth in the franchise ended up living free and flopping with 'Suicide Squad's' Jai Courtney (see the Easter Egg) in mother Russia. She steals the show when Smollett-Bell isn't breaking through her own one. This canary doesn't have to go down in a cage to check if everything's OK. This smoky, smouldering one kicks in the door, unlocks and unloads from her classic car and cigarette behind her shaved braids ear. The 'Friday Night Lights' and 'True Blood' star is illuminating new life in this no time to die squad for a movie that hits for more reasons than the love of cinema and the ghost town we are walking into inbetween all the James Bond, Black Widow and Mulan postponed billboards. 'Do The Right Thing' and 'White Men Can't Jump' legend Rosie Perez cops her biggest and best role in years with a badge, gun and hilarious change of clothes that still doesn't compromise her character. Even if the underuse of the stand-up, 'Always Be My Maybe' star Ali Wong is beyond criminal. We still have 'Veep's' own Ella Jay Basco about to make her 'Deadpool 2' Julian Dennison like breakout as the next child to become a legitimate star talent, pickpocketing every scene she's sleight of handed. And then there's 'Star Wars' Obi and 'Fargo' actor Ewan McGregor, fresh off the Stephen King Overlook, 'Doctor Sleep' horrors of a 'Shining' sequel. Having what looks like the fun of his life in sepia slick style, crushed velvet pocket square as the classic mob boss, Black Mask. With an unrecognisable, but vocally undeniable like Margot's Quinn, Shady bleached blonde 'Live By Night' right hand Chris Messina by his sneering side. "WOO! Whose having a good time"? And if that wasn't enough, how about red rope liquorice lady and the tramping with 'The Lion King' of an hilarious hyena mutley, named after the billionaire playboy pet? As put this DC movie with any Joker, 'Wonder Woman', the surprise of this time last year 'Shazam' and the underwater love and ravishing realms of the refreshing 'Aquaman' amongst the best of the comic coral. A movie as legitimately good as the fellow underrated franchise of sorts. Going mallet against any Marvel. Your apology needs to be as loud as your disrespect was. Now how does that sound for emancipation and the original title that like a super Bat/Vulture hero hybrid Michael Keaton's 'Birdman (Or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance)' deserves its own billboard on Broadway? Despite all the critics that prey on this one like the acid they throw on the toxic males who blow up in this Ace Chemical love and warfare factory like the ACME fireworks that set this explosive, entertaining, energy force at a full blunderbuss of paint and glitter, party popping blast off. Cool girls don't look at explosions either. Who are you guys? Leave all that other stuff for the birds. This R-rated, Gotham girl gang agency rocks. Get ready ladies! TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Further Filming: 'Suicide Squad', 'Charlie's Angels', 'Bombshell'.
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