Catwoman (2004)

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Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Jul 23, 2004
Running Time: 110 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Patience Philips is a woman who can't seem to stop apologizing for her own existence. She works as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a mammoth cosmetics company on the verge of releasing a revolutionary anti-aging product. When Patience inadvertently happens upon a dark secret her employer is hiding, she finds herself in the middle of a corporate conspiracy. What happens next changes Patience forever. In a mystical twist of fate, she is transformed into a woman with the strength, speed, agility and ultra-keen senses of a cat. With her newfound prowess and feline intuition, Patience becomes Catwoman, a sleek and stealthy creature balancing on the thin line between good and bad. Like any wildcat, she's dangerous, elusive and untamed. Her adventures are complicated by a burgeoning relationship with Tom Lone, a cop who has fallen for Patience but cannot shake his fascination with the mysterious Catwoman, who appears to be responsible for a string of crime sprees plaguing the city.
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rating  PETER TRAVERS - July 22, 2004
Not to be catty about it, but the stench of the litter pan is all over this big-screen $90 million disaster-in-waiting. 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. She starts out dowdy as Patience Phillips, a shy… Continued
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The one-named French director Pitof (short for ''pitoful''?) supposedly is a digital-imaging expert who has worked with City of Lost Children's Jean-Pierre Jeunet, but you'd never know it here. Either he doesn't know much about directing actors, or maybe he only gives directions in French. The effects--especially action scenes involving a digitalized version of Berry--move at such a chaotic, breakneck pace that she looks completely phony. Plus, there's absolutely no sequential logic whatsoever… Continued