Can we get past that super-silly subtitle? Can we get past Suicide Squad? Let's find out...
Now, with no explanation, they are broken up.
Things aren't looking good for Harley.
Once the word is out, everyone she's wronged has free reign to get revenge.
To the Film's credit, they don't sugarcoat this (or her).
Determined to save her own skin, she does the deed...but has a change of heart.
The villainous Black Mask has a diamond full of secrets (changed thanks to bad Test Screenings and a Script Leak) stolen and makes Harley get it...or die.
Can she protect the 'innocent' kid here?
Black Mask doesn't take this well, as you'd expect.
To be fair, 90% of the people wanted her dead...and now 95% do. I guess that is a bit worse.
Can a group of disparate people- a Cop, a Vigilante, Harley, a Thief and a Singer- team up to save themselves and, by default, Gotham City?
To find out, watch the Film.
A pretty fun Film, although DC still has some work to do. When this Film works best, they are focusing on Harley and the insanity around her. There can be some moments that are just there for later payoff- like her doing Roller Derby- but they mostly all work. They don't change the character too much to make this work, which was my concern. Instead, they make a somewhat-elaborate-and-contrived situation that forces her to change. It just happens that sixty things line up just right for it all to happen. She just happens to be at the Club, where Canary just happens to work. Montoya just happens to be pressing on Black Mask as all of this goes down AND Harley ends up in her sights to boot. Life can feel like a series of coincidences, but only so much. If you can excuse how elaborate this whole thing has to be to work- like Huntress just happening to be going after people who interweave into the Story-, you can enjoy it. It's by no means perfect and it would have been nice for Harley's agency to be based on more than just 'I got dumped' at the start. Why couldn't she dump him (and still feel bad about it afterwards)? Speaking of The Joker, he's mentioned, but never seen. It's funny to see this happen, since they did so much work to interject him into a Story that *didn't* involve him in Suicide Squad. Now he's just MIA- is he dead?!?- for something involving him being indirectly-attacked by Harley AND in his City. Also I guess Batman is just on vacation (or in rehab) during all of this too! Speaking of missing, why can no Batman-related Film do Victor Zsasz close to his Comic Book roots? He was a random Criminal in Batman Begins and now he's...a vaguely-bisexual Henchman for Black Mask who cuts himself after his victims...or so we're told. I'll admit he's not the most complex or greatest character, but why can't they just make him like he's supposed to be?
A pretty good Film that shows that DC can be different than the pure grim-and-gritty. There's still enough of that, however, to show you that they quite aren't done with it yet.
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