Pitof directs Halle Berry, Benjamin Bratt and Sharon Stone in this superhero spin-off that imagines what would happen if Catwoman was a bit shit.

A derided flop – this should never have seen the inside of cinema screens. A project that went through a million rewrites and then some rushed reshoots it bares very little relation to the classic Batman comics anti-hero. You can see why Warner Brothers wanted to cash in on Pfeiffer’s electric performance in Batman Returns but once she passed that should have been the end of the development process. Instead it freed a bunch of paycheck screenwriters to nudge proceedings too far away from both the canon and Burton’s world building. What we are left with are a fudge of risible scenes, probably the ones the executive liked the most. Little narrative cohesion. Terrible costume design. Awful CGI. A forgettable finale. Hairball!

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Perfect Double Bill: Steel (1997)

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