![]() She received critical acclaim and nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for playing Ann Reinking in the FX biographical miniseries Fosse/Verdon (2019) and the title role in the Netflix drama miniseries Maid (2021). Qualley subsequently appeared in films such as The Nice Guys (2016), Death Note (2017), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), and performed a voice role in the video game Death Stranding (2019). She made her acting debut in the 2013 drama film Palo Alto, and gained recognition for her supporting role in the HBO drama series The Leftovers (2014–2017). The daughter of actress Andie MacDowell, she trained as a ballerina in her youth. I encourage them to keep trying.Sarah Margaret Qualley (born October 23, 1994) is an American actress and model. A better effort at this type of anti-hero comic book adventure (certainly better than SUICIDE SQUAD) but the DCEU still has not stuck the landing on this. I'll give her credit, she caught my attention with the last 1/2 hour of this film - much more so than she did with the first 79 minutes. ![]() The Direction by Cathy Yan is professional and competent and the final showdown does show signs of originality and brilliance. I didn't much care for this character - or the performance - so I had no real emotional investment in whether or not the Birds of Prey could save her. Also not "doing it for me" was Ella Jay Basco as Cassandra Cain, the street kid that becomes the focal point of the bad guys in the film (and the character the Birds of Prey must band together to save). The character was pretty much in front of you at the start of the film and was still the same one-note character at the end. ![]() Fairing less well as a character was Ewan McGregor's one-note take on super-narcissistic Roman Sionis/Black Mask. I think there MIGHT have been, but no real sample size to tell. So, this film has 4 interesting characters at the top, but the issue is that they don't come together as a team until VERY late in the film (in a finale showdown that was the highlight of the film for me), so I really couldn't tell if there was any chemistry between these characters/actresses. And, finally, Mary Elizabeth Winstead almost steals the film as the revenge-seeking Huntress, a character I really enjoyed and hope I see again (though, I'm learning my lesson - let it be as a supporting character in another film and not her own, standalone film). Same goes for Jurnee Smollett-Bell's interpretation of Black Canary a character I knew very little about and was intrigued (though her "Super Power" was suddenly sprung on the audience with very little foreshadowing - foreshadowing that could have helped). She played earnest, frustrated Police Officer Renee Montoya and I found myself rooting for her when she was on the screen. For the first time in I can't tell you, Rosie Perez did not annoy me in her role. The other Birds of Prey are just as interesting. I will give Margot Robbie credit.her interpretation of the character is interesting and that performance kept me focused throughout. She is, at it turns out, a very good SUPPORTING character, but not one that is interesting enough (at least for me) to carry a whole movie. ![]() This is just not a character, I discovered, that I want to spend an entire film with. I start with the main focus of this film - Harley Quinn. I applaud the effort and the idea behind the movie, but as a film, this one didn't quite work for me. Consequently, this is a "female empowerment" film where the self-described "tough chicks" band together to defeat the male villain. BIRDS OF PREY (which I hear is now being relabeled HARLEY QUINN: BIRDS OF PREY) is produced by Margot Robbie's production company and features an all female lead cast (the villain is a male) and a female Writer and a female Director. BIRDS OF PREY (AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF ONE HARLEY QUINN) is the answer to that wish and while it is slightly better than SUICIDE SQUAD, it still isn't all. Did you catch the 2016 DCEU disappointment SUICIDE SQUAD with Will Smith as Deadshot and Jared Leto as the Joker? Many people (myself included) thought that that film was "just fine, nothing special" but were impressed with the way Margot Robbie handled the Harley Quinn character and wished for a standalone film that featured the Harley Quinn character.
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