![]() ![]() Comics fans will know that Dinah, nicknamed Black Canary, has a superpower up her sleeve. The other Birds, coming to the action from different angles, are an underappreciated police detective named Montoya (Rosie Perez) and a singer named Dinah (Jurnee Smollett-Bell). She’s now the Huntress, and, despite the fun she has with a small-scale crossbow, Winstead’s the most under-used actor in the film. After she saw her parents and siblings killed, Helena trained for decades so she could get revenge. When it starts pulling other women into the action, its time-hopping seems largely an excuse to (along with the film’s score) imitate Kill Bill: We meet Helena Bertinelli ( Mary Elizabeth Winstead), the sole living member of the family who once owned that magnificent diamond. But that gem is casually stolen by a pickpocket named Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco), and Sionis agrees to spare Harley’s life if she’ll find the diamond for him.Ĭhristina Hodson’s screenplay indulges in a couple of epic flashbacks as it lays out this premise, sometimes disrupting chronological momentum for no clear purpose. A vain, hammy villain whose affectations include wearing monogrammed gloves no matter the weather, Sionis is bent on obtaining a diamond that, however valuable in its own right, holds the key to a much vaster fortune. Once word of their split gets out, every underworld denizen she’s ever wronged wants her head on a plate - few more than Roman Sionis ( Ewan McGregor), a crime lord also known as Black Mask. ![]() Harley, accustomed to doing any crazy, violent thing that enters her mind, doesn’t realize how protected she has been by the public’s fear of Joker. But as Birds begins, they’ve broken up for good. She fell in love with the psychopath, helped him escape, and became the “badass broad” behind many of his crimes. She became a shrink, then was assigned to work with the Joker during one of his many periods of incarceration. All you need to know about Quinn is explained in a combination of animation and voiceover early on: Born Harleen Quinzel, she had daddy issues and a Catholic-school upbringing. The best news here is that this film requires no experience with its predecessor. ![]()
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