Matt Win

This is a lot of fun. A movie that plays on the crazy grotesque world of Gotham with comedy, in the way the old Burt Ward, Adam West movie did in the 60s, but bang up to date with mallet wielding psychos playing it for laughs. Some genuine comic moments in this film, and really funny and exciting fight sequences. I love the way the story isn't linear - it's very much scatty and scatter-brained in its telling, much like the narrator, Harley Quinn herself. This is a movie that deserves a wide audience. It's slick, stylish, witty and plays against expectations that DC movies are slow and self important, or that a girl's comic book movie needs to be sexy sexy sexy. The only weak point is Ewan McGregor, whose limp and unfocused villain is less than memorable - but then, he usually is. Otherwise, it's a romp, a caper and pretty joyous.

This is a really interesting and fun look into the world of robotics, and more importantly, AI. It's clever and intriguing, but there are one or two episodes that are extremely badly thought through - one in particular that spends the entire episode in exposition rather than plot advancement. With that episode you really get the feeling of the scriptwriter rather heavy handedly laying out the character motives of each character so that there is an excuse for their next behaviour. A lot of the stuff between the family is a bit tedious and predictable, Toropov is an idiot generally and there is a genuinely naive presentation of complex ideas. Basically, where it comes to life is with Arisa. She is intriguing, interesting and you can't help wanting more of her. In some ways as it goes on it feels like Fatal Attraction with robots, but it doesn't fall into that line, but mixes quite a lot of genres - detective story, AI / Frankenstein story, kitchen sink drama, family breakdown drama, cyberpunk thriller - and in this way it keeps it fresh. I find it, in the end not entirely satisfying because of the poorly delineated characterisation - but Arisa, she's great.

A strange confused story that should be fun and funny but somehow isn't. I didn't understand the motives the reasoning or the character objectives, and didn't care about any of it. The sentiments are noble - the worlds a mess, let's sort it out - but the plot serves the didacticism and the character drives suffer for it. In the end it was really rather boring.