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Halle Berry can look good in just about anything, including a terrible movie. I went into "Catwoman" wondering if it would really be as bad as everyone said. After all, Berry is fun to watch and would be wearing all manner of crazy dominatrix gear. A little over the top to be sure, but certainly not a bad thing. Unfortunately "Catwoman" commits a crime far worse than being ridiculous: it's boring.

Berry plays Patience Phillips, a frumpy graphic designer at Hedare Beauty, a cosmetics congolmerate, who learns too much about the greedy corporation's new product "beau-line." Turns out that this face cream not only reverses the aging process for women who use it, it also rots their faces if they stop using it. When Patience is killed for knowing too much, she's revived by some obviously CGI cats who turn her into a crazy cat lady … err Catwoman. Then she sets out for revenge.

Considering that "Batman" already played the lethal cosmetics card, the plot is pretty damn unoriginal even for its own world. What's worse, the uninteresting love story between Patience and gritty cop Tom Lone (Benjamin Bratt) takes up so much of the film one wonders if this is supposed to be a chick flick. The worst condemnation I can make for "Catwoman" is that I couldn't sit and watch it in one viewing. When I got up for some more soda, I didn't pause it. When I did pause the film later, it was because I felt like going to do something else. It just wasn't interesting enough to hold my attention. But it deserves at least one star for putting Halle Berry in some hot outfits.

1/5 Stars