Catwoman (Full Screen Edition)
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[3.0 Stars]
222 Reviews
Pub. 18-Jan-2005;
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Product Description
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For a certain segment of the population, the vision of Halle Berry in shredded skin-tight leather is reason enough to see Catwoman. As Patience Philips, Berry plays a mousy graphic designer for a cosmetics company who learns a little too much about her employer's new beauty cream and gets flushed down a waste-disposal pipe. A supernatural cat brings Patience back to life and brings up a new persona from the depths of her psyche; soon she's bounding around fire escapes, cracking a whip, and getting framed for a couple of murders by a villainous ex-supermodel (Sharon Stone, Total Recall, Basic Instinct). If you're hoping for a Catwoman with bite, this is not your movie--this Catwoman rescues children from malfunctioning ferris wheels and apologizes for stealing jewels. The movie's script and visual style are as fresh as used kitty litter. Also featuring Benjamin Bratt (Miss Congeniality), and Frances Conroy (Six Feet Under). --Bret Fetzer
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Not awful, it's just mediocre
the acting isnt perfect, the idea is messed up
but lay back and enjoy;
[Rating: 4 Stars]
Okay, I can understand why everyone who likes the original Catwoman was upset by this movie as it is very different from this. (I get upset too when people just change things like that, but I don't HATE the adaption!)But you don't have to hate it! They based the movie loosely on the comic's characters, and the renaming to Patience was probably another thing to show you that they wanted to set it aside from the original. It's like the movie Eragon - when I saw it, I thought that if the characters hadn't had the same name I would NEVER have guessed it was Eragon. But I still think it was a good movie!
If the name of the movie hadn't been Catwoman you guys probably wouldn't have complained "Catwoman in nothing but name". Well, it's sort of true. She's NOT DC comics version of Catwoman in anything but name, she's a NEW Catwoman, a different kind! (Why can't there be several kinds of women with feline powers?) Try not to keep comparing all the time, try to see this movie as a stand-alone thing that has, yes, the same [hero] name, but nothing else to do with Selina Kyle.
I know this movie won some award for worst adaption or something, but I don't think they were even TRYING to adapt it from the comics. I think they wanted to make a NEW feline superhero and thought they needed to ask for permission to use Catwoman as a name.
As I love both cats and ancient Egypt, this was my dream movie. It's about Patience Phillips, a shy artist who works as an ad designer for the cosmetics company Hedare. After uncovering a dark secret behind the company's new beauty cream, Patience is murdered but brought back to life by a mysterious cat. She discovers that she now has the powers of a cat - she sees in the dark, she's incredibly agile, and her personality changes to become self-confident and aloof. She now has a new goal - she will use her powers to bring the secret to light.
Catwoman discovers that she's descended from a long line of Catwomen, saved by the same cat, Midnight, who is really old and comes from ancient Egypt. I think this was a really good idea!
I agree with some of you about the costume, though: she shouldn't wear a bra. I think the leather she wore at the beginning or a catsuit would've been better. But that is just about the only thing I think is bad.
The plot is good, too, like a previous reviewer said, that it's about cosmetics and not some world domination thing. I mean, some cosmetics ARE evil! Thy have lots and lots of horrible chemicals in them and I wouldn't be surprised if something as awful as Beau-line would appear someday.
Anyways, I think Catwoman is excellent, and I think everyone with bad words should stop being biased (even though I can understand your reasons) and see Patience Phillips as an all-new feline hero. ;
[Rating: 5 Stars]
This is an unbelievably bad film, but, considering it was made by a mentally challenged person, it was a good effort.
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[Rating: 1 Stars]
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