**🦜 BIRDS OF PREY " LITE " : With Only -½- Its Delectably Whacky, Trippy Neon, Psychedelic Charm . . . . . But With -3- Times The MINDLESS { "Dark-Comic Style" } BRUTALITY & GORE 💥**

A -{ BIG }- Screen Micro Review .

I'll readily admit it. I set out to watch 'Black Widow' -{ again 😄 }- , had the film's timings wrong, and ended up watching 'Birds... ooops ...I mean 'Gunpowder Milkshake', ( 'GM' for short ), instead. But no, really, watch the -Official- trailer, and you'll see what I mean ; the similarities, which permeate the ( -Entire- ) movie, are, 'to put it mildly' ...really, really, really... -{ Stark }- . "Mention-of-note" : The utterly -{ ADORABLE 💜 }- pint sized thespian, Chloe Choleman ( "8¾ year old Emily" ) . . she's Twelve in real-life, and is simply a lovely, -Effusive- bundle of utter delight, and of course . . -Talent- .

"Serious-downside" : Simply put, 'not very good timing, at all'. In other words, on the one hand you have the USA being -Utterly- battered by a -Very- Deadly Pandemic . . . { 'no offence' to Covid-19, but right now I'm actually referring to the ( TRULY ) Horrific 'summer spike' in **American - GUN 🔫 - violence }** . . and on the other, you have a -US- ( Gunpowder's 'Country of origin' is listed as 'France, Germany, USA' ) picture that -Altogether- glorifies a -{ "Seemingly Endless" }- spree of 'vividly gratuitous slaughter' . . the likes of which I haven't seen in a -serious- while. Not to mention the rather -glaring- "Birds Of Prey déjà-vu" aspect of exposing an -Actual- , innocent, young 12 ( -13½ in the case of 'Birds Of Prey'- ) year old "babygirl", { and in a "prominent, Starring-Role", at that } to -That- level of Darkness & Violence, albeit thematic. Seriously . . . What kind of message does that send❓.

Summation : "Save some money". Sure, the film has its moments, & is even "Supremely" funny in -Atleast- 2 or 3 places, let's be clear. But in my humble opinion, if you're -Not- 'particularly' crazy about this sub-genre, then 'GM' is, I'm afraid, -{ Not ⛔ }- worth a special trip to the cinema, -Especially- with the 'delta variant' of Covid 19 -Still- wreaking some Serious "Mayhem" in so many, many, many parts of the world. So if you feel like this is a 'must' watch for you, then you should be -Just- fine streaming it on, { say }, Netflix, which, by the way, PRODUCED IT . . 'ANYWAY' . -All- things considered, then, that's going to be an 'Honest-to-goodness' 5.50 Marks Out Of 10.00 from me, because that's -{ REALLY }- . . . as far as I can go .