How sad is this?

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

A Masterpiece!

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I enjoyed this film. It's not the greatest but it was a hell of a lot more watchable than its current IMDb of 3.3 suggest so no qualms about giving it a tactical 10 to bump it up a bit.The problem as such? I'm going to come right out and say it - this is a chick's version of a superhero movie. Catwoman is not really macho, she's not really that violent. The subplot is about personal growth but not in the becoming a demigod or Bruce Wayne to batman way. ...By the end of the film catwoman character "knows herself". That could only count as a finale in a female oriented movie! Having said that - I'm not blind - it is a fairly weak movie. In truth probably say 5.5 on IMDb norms. I think the reason it gets marked down is the disappointment of the fanboys that all the usual male-oriented themes are missing. That's why it equally erroneously gets a 1 so often - just disappointment and a bit of how dare you mess with "our" DC universe.Well don't believe that nonsense. It wasn't great but it was bad either and I was mildly entertained. Just watch it.

This is one of the most over-hype film I've ever scene. The CGI is crap like it look like a video game. I heard it was a box office bomb even though I didn't see it in theaters. This film is mostly likely unforgettable like no matter. The acting is poor in my opinion. My question is why is the Cat Woman costume look like what a 13 year old look at the picture and do you know what? Also it's worse than BatMan and Robin (1997). This film need a lot of improvement.

When Batman Returns (1992) was released people really enjoyed Michelle Pfeiffer's take on Cat woman and who can blame them? It was a kick ass roll that turned into one of her most famous roles. A spin off movie was planned to start shortly after the Batman returns in 1993 with Michelle Pfeiffer reprising her role along with Tim Burton directing it. The agreement fell through due to conflicting priorities with Pfeiffer's family life and Burton slowing losing interest in the project. The film would sit in development hell for years until Halle Berry would sign onto the project around 2002. The film would get released on the 23rd of July 2004....We waited so many years for this...this movie....Instead of Salina Kyle we have Patience Phillips (Halle Berry) a meek and lonely woman who works at an evil beauty company, we know that she is meek and clumsy by the amount of people and objects she bumps into and says sorry to in the opening minutes of the movie. It is about as subtle as a pancake to the face because of the sheer amount of persons she bumps into which are almost ten people. Then we are introduced to her slightly ugly (but not really) best friend and the obligatory deeply offensive gay best friend, both of these characters have very little to no bearing on the plot and will not be of any focus because the film put so little effort into making them interesting. The evil make up company (I am not joking) is run by Sharon Stone and Lambert Wilson both who have characters who are so one dimensionally evil that I half expected them to cackle like hyenas while twirling their mustaches. They are creating face cream that will cause the face to rot off if the cream stops being used (I am not joking). Halle Berry overhears this evil plot and is killed off to which a magical cat called Midnight breathes on her (Again, I am not joking) and then Patience Phillips becomes....CATWOMAN!But what is a Cat woman?Well the key, according to this movie is in the name Cat-woman, it is woman who is also a cat. The cat part is very important to this movie as after the cat breathing session Halle Berry has vertical pupils, she sleeps on shelves, she devours tuna by the ton, drinks milk, hisses at dogs, jumps and walks like a cats, ALWAYS lands on her feet and sees in the dark.The fun does not stop there as one aspect of being a Cat Woman is that she likes jewelry and skin tight leather because cats like that too I suppose.Now we move onto that costume, that infamous costume. I am sure that you the reader will know what I am talking about. It is on every single promotional material for this movie. Let me be frank, it is hideous, it is about as sexy as a festering wound, it is a BDSM costume gone wrong, I might as well as call her Cat-gimp thanks to that costume.So with the superhero thing just about set up but with no reason to care, Halle Berry sets out to expose the evil company from letting the skin rotting cream from hitting the market, all the while trying to balance dating a cop who's name I also cannot remember but I know is played by Benjamin Bratt who is also investigating the new and mysterious cat woman for a series of murders that Sharon Stone has framed on the Cat woman. He is so inept at his job that even when he faces Cat woman he can't tell it is his girlfriend despite the suit not really obscuring much, in terms of identity, no he has to go through unnecessary tasks of finger print analysis and lip analysis even when the answer is obvious to all.Eventually things come to ahead and Halle Berry and Sharon stone fight in a drunkenly edited fight scene that is too hard to follow or to care. By the way did you know that if you continue to use the skin rotting cream often enough your skin will turn as hard as granite? This is a big threat to Halle Berry until hits her enough which causes the skin to rot because reasons. Only watch if you want to see a hot, silly, incoherent scrapheap of a move for the laughs it can provide.

Catwoman (2004) * (out of 4) Patience Phillips (Halle Berry) is a rather clumsy and socially awkward woman who is pushed around at her job. One day she witnesses something she shouldn't have and she's murdered. Before long she's brought back to life by a mysterious cat and soon after that she's fighting crime as the title character.CATWOMAN is a film that I've wanted to check out since its original release simply because the reviews were so bad and the film become somewhat notorious for how bad it is. It took me thirteen-years to finally see it and I wish I would have waited another thirteen. There are all sorts of issues with this film but I must start off by saying that Berry is a very beautiful woman and the film does a nice job at showing off her body. With that said, if there was ever a comic book movie screaming for a R-rating this was it.As I said, there are countless problems with this film but I guess we can start with Berry. As the Patience character I thought she was pretty good as she did a good job at playing the sillier side of the character. She was believable in the part but all of this changes when she became Catwoman. There are countless problems with the character itself including some really lame one-liners as well as Berry's delivery. The cat sounds she makes is just embarrassing and I couldn't help but feel bad for Berry because she's the one being embarrassed.Benjamin Bratt is okay in the role of the love interest but Sharon Stone is downright awful in her role. Again, perhaps I shouldn't blame the actress too much because the screenplay is very poor. With that said, there's no doubt that Stone's character is one of the worst villains in film history. Not just comic book film history but film history in general. Her entire scheme is just lame and it doesn't help that you're never threatened by her.The screenplay is full of issues but the direction by Pitof isn't any better. The wannabe fast, MTV-style editing is just lame and I'd argue that there's no one well-directed scene in the picture. Just take a look at the ferris wheel sequence or a really embarrassing basketball game. Two really awful scenes but there are more scattered throughout. CATWOMAN is a pretty darn embarrassing movie all around.