Charlie’s angels
Language : English / German / Turkish / French / Portuguese
Year of release : 2019
Run time : 1h58m
Genre : Action / Comedy
Cast : Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth Banks, Naomi Scott, Sam Claflin, Djimon Hounsou, Patrick Stewart
The movie was written and directed by Elizabeth Banks. The movie is the 3d of the franchise, and is based on the 1976 tv series of the same name. The series also have a 2011 tv series reboot.
Sabina is on a date with international embezzler Jonny Smith, in Rio de Janeiro. They have this annoying conversation, in which he’s talking down to her, telling her women can’t do what men can. And she proves him wrong by taking him in. I think she messes her lines because it sounds like she says it takes a man an additional 7 seconds to consider a woman a threat, compared to a man, when I think she means a woman.
One year later in Hamburg, Elena, an engineer and programmer, tries to warn her superiors about the flaw of Calisto, an energy conservation device that she helped create, that in the wrong hands can be used to k1ll people.
In Los Angeles, the old Bosley, played by Patrick Stewart, retires. Apparently now Bosley is just a title given to someone, like lieutenant. They have these awful CGI pictures of the actresses from the 2000’s movies, replacing Bill Murray with Patrick Stewart! Thumbs down! They have this video conference from all around the world, with all the Bosleys cheering him. Some of them are in moving cars. Just no!
Elena tries to warn entrepreneur Brok, at the company presentation, but he doesn’t want to hear, as he says he can’t know these kind of things.
Sabina is paired with Jane, by their Bosley, who meets with Elena - who wants to give him all the information on Calisto – at a restaurant.
Jane, who plays the waitress, sees a man writing at a type writer while watching a screen to see what’s happening behind him. He starts fighting with Jane when she notices him. Jane and Bosley manage to get Elena out, but the assassin follows them, and manages to sho0t Bosley and push their car into the river with his.
A new, female, Bosley shows up to help them. Going to their safe house, they start thinking maybe all that fire power the assassin brought just to catch or k1ll Elena wasn’t just for her, but for them too.
They come up with a plan to steal the Calisto prototypes before being duplicated, and all 3 disguise themselves as the same woman with a ball cut hair (that was one of the ugliest haircuts I’ve ever seen). Elena can only find one but she uses it to escape, as the security is after them since the men who’s ID cards they stole entered the building. Jane seems to be interested in Elena’s colleague, and the feeling seems to be mutual.
When they realize Elena’s superior, Fleming, took the prototypes to Istanbul, they follow him, with Jane asking a favor from one of her contacts from when she used to work for the MI6.
The movie was a rehash of the previous 2 from the early 2000’s (I loved those movies!). If you watched those movies you’ll see it’s the exact same things happening, following the same steps,but being somehow less fun / funny. The movie feels like it has no identity, except for the annoying woke Hollywood must-have of the past 10 years, that appears right at the beginning of the movie, in the first 10 minutes, that made me want to turn it off! This is the reason I stopped watching new movies! I’m not interested in the agenda.
I hated the intro, which usually has this cool victorious music, showing us the 3 leads since childhood, with their achievements in life, and now they just played an awful generic song, showing random girls playing around! Thumbs down!
Hodak was exactly like the Creepy Thin Man from the 2000’s movies, who never speaks.
We do not know anything about the leads except for what we see them do at work. They have no personal lives for us to see. So basically, the movie has no soul, and we can’t feel for them.
The movie has a twist at the end, which, like I said, if you watched the previous movies, you’ll see coming.
Patrick Stewart was in his 80’s when he played in the movie. I don’t understand why actors don’t retire anymore. I understand they love acting, but are they never tired? Don’t they want / need to rest? Live their golden years in peace, enjoying their money and achievements?
This time the Townsend Agency is world wide and has many “angels” , many women hired, so it could be anyone in the crowd.
The movie has extra scenes with celebrity cameos in the end credits, but unless you watch it at home and you don’t turn it off, you won’t be able to watch it. At the cinema they turn on the lights the moment it’s written The End on the screen, and the cleaning lady waits at the door. People don’t stick around to watch anymore, as you can’t see well with the lights on.
I liked the action / fighting scenes.
The acting was good.
I didn’t like the soundtrack. The songs for the movie didn’t match whatever it was on the screen, lowering its value as they were generic at best. Not to mention they were always on, as if this was a chick flick!
The visual effects were good.
The movie has a 52% tie score from the critics of Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, and a 78% popcorn meter against a 3.2 user score on the same platforms.
Cinema Score audiences graded the movie a B+. IMDB a 5.
The movie grossed a little over 73 million dollars at the box office, against a 55 million dollars budget, being one of the biggest disappointments of the year.
Rating : Could have been a contender !