Movie review: Birds Of Prey struggles with Harley Quinn's irrationality but is spot-on with the visuals

Margot Robbie stars as Harley Quinn in Birds Of Prey. PHOTO: WARNER BROS
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109 minutes/Now showing/3 stars

The story: In this DC Comics superhero movie set in the fictional Gotham City, the mentally unstable Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) and the Joker go through a breakup after the events of Suicide Squad (2016), leaving the villainess in an even more emotionally fragile state than before. Quinn goes on a violent, alcohol-fuelled bender in the nightclub owned by criminal mastermind Roman Sionis (Ewan McGregor). Without the Joker's protection, Sionis is free to punish her, but she is saved by club singer Dinah (Jurnee Smollett-Bell).

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