Halle plays Patience Phillips, a mild-mannered artist being underutilized for a cosmetics company. She stumbles upon the company’s fiendish designs to mass-produce a beauty cream that’s addictive and deadly. It’s a discovery that costs Patience her life as well as serve as the catalyst for her new life as Catwoman. As part feline and part human Phillips finds herself toeing the line between hero and criminal, while trying to balance her more reserved nature with her newly heightened sense of super-human freedom.

The Spider-Man franchise, as great as it’s becoming, has hurt the genre of comic book hero motion pictures. I say that because no longer are audiences satisfied with simply seeing comic book pages come to life; now they require depth and plot. You know…a movie.

I guess the folks responsible for bringing "Catwoman" to the screen thought that putting a sexy Oscar award winner in tight leather and giving her a whip to crack was all that was needed to make this an enjoyable movie. However, it didn’t require much time in my seat to discover that wasn’t going to be enough. Sure enough Halle looked great, but her acting talent was nowhere to be found. This is the kind of role she could have played back in 1991, when she was just "the pretty girl" in all the movies she was in back in those days. She’s come a long way, but you really couldn’t tell in this one. The jokes weren’t funny, the drama wasn’t very dramatic but that’s not entirely her fault.

Did I mention how good she looked? I’m sorry for beating that dead horse, but let’s be real, that has been the number one focal point of the film’s ad campaign. I guess it worked because in the screening I attended the theater was packed and it was 75% men. I guess if that was all I wanted to see I would have given this movie a much higher rating, but I’m sorry, if I wanted to watch good-looking, scantily clad women, I would just turn on a music video channel.