“Yes, Halle Berry is beautiful, but what she does and says while Catwoman doesn’t show the care and precision that the rest of the story demonstrates as it develops characters, story lines, emotions, and atmosphere. How ironic, then, that the focus of the marketing campaign and undoubtedly the emphasis during production are the worst parts of an otherwise well made movie”…
“It’s not hard to see why Halle Berry would want to put on a cat suit and become the first woman of color to play the lead in a blockbuster. After all, Berry is the first African-American woman to win the Best Actress Oscar (for Monster’s Ball). Sadly, Catwoman, allegedly a tale of female empowerment, declaws her ambitions”…
“When there’s a big-budget, major studio cat-astrophe like this, it’s often interesting to analyze what happened. Back in 1992, the Catwoman movie concept was conceived after Michelle Pfeiffer embodied the character in “Batman Returns.” When Pfeiffer bowed out of a reprise, Halle Berry, who’d just won an Oscar for “Monster’s Ball,” pounced”…
“Along with the slinky costume (a ludicrous choice for scaling walls and leaping tall buildings), content issues of concern are the implied sexual relationship between Patience and her policeman boyfriend Tom Lone (Benjamin Bratt), and the plentiful stylized violence. Catwoman pursues her prey with jumps, hits and kicks, aided by obvious computer enhancements”…
Starring: Halle Berry, Sharon Stone, Benjamin Bratt
Opinions:
“As superhero movies go this is better than say “Batman & Robin” and “Superman 4″, but really that’s about all it beats. This is one purr-fect failure whose only real entertainment value will be in the future watching insecure hetero male teenagers keenly begging to watch Tobey Maguire in spandex or Ben Affleck in red leather over Halle Berry in a black bra”…
(16 votes, average: 4.13 out of 5)
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(12 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)
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