In 2003, fresh from winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for Shadow of Hate, Halle Berry was offered her first lead role in Catwoman. Very proud to be part of a woman-powered film (in her own words), the actress has been training intensively to convey her character’s feline nature through her gestures.
If director French Pitoff’s intentions are noble – to embrace a multi-dimensional superhero and avoid making a simple sex bomb – the production quickly goes wrong.
In the hands of 28 screenwriters, the story is a far cry from the Catwoman created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane in the 1940s comics. Selina Kyle is replaced by a somewhat patient Phillips, who discovers her powers by reviving him from her murder. his employer.
Released in 2004, the film was a commercial disaster. With a worldwide gross of $82 million, it doesn’t make up for its $100 million budget. Besides, cat woman It receives negative reviews, making it one of the worst films ever made.
Nominated seven times at the 25th Razzie Awards, the feature film won Worst Picture, Worst Actress, Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay. It is a rare fact that one of the screenwriters John Rogers and Halle Berry came to collect them. After that, the actor started making fun of himself.
With an average rating of 1.3/5, cat woman One of the most underrated films of the 2000s by AlloCiné audiences.
cat woman By Pitoff with Halle Berry, Benjamin Bratt, Sharon Stone…
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Source: Allocine
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