Catwoman

Name: Catwoman
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Crime
Released: July 23, 2004
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 27
Cast: Benjamin Bratt, Halle Berry, Sharon Stone

2004

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Warner Home Video | Release Date: July 23, 2004 | PG-13

Starring: Benjamin Bratt, Halle Berry, Sharon Stone

Summary: Sleek, mysterious, dangerous and sexy, Catwoman has never had any trouble captivating fans...or making enemies. A sometime defender of the underdog, she isn't above breaking the law to achieve her own ends. Free to walk in both the dark and the light, she is superhero and arch-villain all rolled into one. (Warner Bros.)

Director: Pitof

Genre(s): Action, Fantasy, Crime

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 104 min

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Mick LaSalle

For Friday night this will do just fine. It's definitely a good matchup -- Stone's cynical bravado versus Berry's resilient spunkiness in a world-class cat fight. Read full review

Kirk Honeycutt

The result is not the train wreck one might anticipate from surfing the Net. The catfights, overacting and Berry's swagger in a skimpy, tight, leather outfit that would be right at home at a Hookers Ball make for campy fun. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

Qualifies as top-grade catnip for connoisseurs of trashy camp.

Andrea Gronvall

Cinematographer Thierry Arbogast is the real superhero; his homage to noir thrillers compensates for the spotty CGI and rescues the movie from sex-kitten kitsch. Read full review

Dana Stevens

A howlingly silly, moderately diverting exercise in high, pointless style. Read full review

David Sterritt

Cartoonish effects and overacting make this more corn than catnip. Read full review

Marc Savlov

Utterly devoid of merit, fantastic or otherwise, a more exasperating descent into the feline world is difficult to imagine. Read full review

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catanna1

Apr 20, 2014

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I think a lot of the critics just didn't get this movie. Maybe they were disappointed that it wasn't another chapter in the adventures of Selina Kyle. No, it's not: different name, different premise and totally different interpretation of what it might be like to become a Catwoman. What =I= don't get is why there is anything wrong with that? We're talking about a fictional character, people, lighten up! Some of the critics are saying that Halle Berry's performance is too "over the top" after she is transformed. Maybe for a 100% human lady but hey this is a story about a woman brought back to life by a magical Mau on an errand from Bast the Cat Goddess. Halle's facial expressions, voice and moves, especially when toying with her "prey", become verrrry feline which is a good part of the point of the movie. Another point is that Catwoman is both a tribute to female power and independence and also explores the darker side of power in both men and women and methinks some of the critics are a tad uncomfortable with both of these things. Whatever. There's plenty to like in this movie. A mythic storyline of initiation and rebirth, darkly beautiful visuals, a clever Egyptian-inspired cats-and-catwomen through history subplot that starts with elegant title art, solid performances from Sharon Stone, Benjamin Bratt, Frances Conroy and Hembert Wilson and a fine supporting cast both human and feline. Forget the critics. Go see this movie with an open mind and you'll probably enjoy it. And you might even love it as much as I did :-)… Expand

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Evyan2002

Jan 24, 2016

Catwoman is an ok movie. The only part I didn't like about it was that half of the time Halle Berry was animated. Her costume was good, but bad animation.

0 of 1 users found this helpful01

alexandrea

Dec 1, 2021

While I don´t agree with the term Guilty Pleasure, this is probably one of the few movies i feel confortable using it.

0 of 3 users found this helpful03

marcmyworks

Jan 2, 2014

A true waste of time and film. Horrible plot, horrible costume, horrible script, horrible acting, horrible directing. The one thing I did like was how bad Sharon Stone's acting was and how her one-liners became a drinking game.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

reviewer2015lol

Aug 1, 2016

the reason why you don't see halle berry not a lot anymore in movies is because of this. She bombed in the movie so hard it was painfull. Allmost all the actors are overacting, the effects are awful, the plot doesn't make any sense. This is probarly the worst superhero movie ever

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

TannerJ

Jun 5, 2009

I can't believe Halle Berry decided to be in this. A disaster in every way possible. So over the top/overdone. What a joke.

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Girlup

Aug 2, 2020

I had to convince myself not to gourge my eyes out. this movie was laughable, made no absolute sense it was so dumb that a 0 rating is mercy. Don't watch I wouldn't even recommend it to my worst enemy

2 of 2 users found this helpful20

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