This movie felt
more like a movie trailer.
Trailers are
meant to put together parts of a movie compressed into two minutes to grab your
attention and make you want to see the film. That’s what this ninety-minute
movie felt like—a long trailer. You know how trailers never give you the whole
story, and all you really see are needless jumping, sexuality, and comedic
scenes that make you want more. The need for more makes you want to see the
film, so at the end of this Charlie’s Angels, you don’t feel like you’ve seen a
movie.
It ended with me
wondering, “What the hell did I just watch?”
Charlie’s Angels
are lady operatives managed by Charlie’s lieutenant, Bosley. Charlie runs a
private detective agency called the Townsend Agency. This movie is a
continuation of the Charlie's Angels TV series.
Here, the Angels
are tasked with rescuing a brilliant technological genius and also finding out
who stole his invention and returning it. That’s basically what this movie is
about in one sentence.
Then, of course,
there’s the unexpected twist, which was supposed to help the movie, but the
already bad plot made the twist about who the real bad guy(s) was meaningless.
The lives of the Angels are in danger because of the turn of events, and now
they’re the ones playing catch-up.
To flesh it out,
there are things you already know—each Angel brings something different to the
table. Think of all the cheesiness you can expect in one movie, and Charlie's
Angels has it, and some more.
The fight choreography, to me, is all made for laughs—silly, and the use of wires to make the Angels fly is more than apparent. I guess back in 2000, the girls weren’t ready to put anything into learning how to kick or fight properly. They used cut scenes for some fights, where you see the kick but not the kicker, and seeing it now, twenty years later, I have to say the fights are horrible. Even the ending fights, where we actually get to see them fight, kick, and punch, were mediocre.
Other than
Cameron Diaz, I felt the other two didn’t live up to their A-list status. Bill
Murray is way funnier than this movie made him out to be, and the plot is so
free-for-all that it’s amazing these girls got anything done.
In the end, I
feel more for Elizabeth Banks’ 2019 reboot and think her version is far better
than this. The world has changed significantly since then, and it seems the
best way to get these girls to do anything was for them to use sexuality. They
hardly used anything else to get what was needed to complete their mission. The
movie didn’t have anything going for it other than that.
Now, Banks’ 2019
version had a stronger plot, and we saw the girls actually do things, which
meant they put some effort into learning how to kick, punch, and move. The
whole sexuality thing wasn’t how they got things done in Banks’ reboot. The
plot was deeper than that, and they had to think and use their brains to get
things done.
In the end, I
feel like this 2000 version should be left in the past as one movie that did
well at the box office and had good reviews because some people back then
didn’t know any better.
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