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Charlie's Angels

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Charlie's Angels (2000)

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Reviews Counted:135

Fresh:91

Rotten:44

Average Rating:6.2/10

Consensus: The story and plot are nothing to write home about, but the movie has enough action and campy fun to entertain the skeptics.

Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: A trio of elite private investigators armed with the latest in high-tech tools, high-performance vehicles, martial arts techniques and a vast array of disguises unleash their state-of-the-art... A trio of elite private investigators armed with the latest in high-tech tools, high-performance vehicles, martial arts techniques and a vast array of disguises unleash their state-of-the-art skills on land, sea and air to track down a kidnapped computer ace and keep his top-secret voice-identification software out of lethal hands.

They’re beautiful, they’re brilliant, and they work for Charlie. In Charlie’s Angels, a sexy, high-octane update of the original ’70s action-comedy TV series, Natalie (Cameron Diaz), Dylan (Drew Barrymore) and Alex (Lucy Liu), alongside faithful lieutenant Bosley (Bill Murray), must foil an elaborate murder-revenge plot that could not only destroy individual privacy worldwide, but spell the end of Charlie and his Angels.

Eric Knox (Sam Rockwell), the handsome, brainy founder of Knox Technologies, has just been kidnapped from his own office. Knox has designed a voice-identification software program that works more accurately than current fingerprinting techniques -- a scientific breakthrough that would mean disaster in the wrong hands.

Following Knox’s disappearance, Knox Technologies President Vivian Wood (Kelly Lynch) knows there’s only one man -- and three smart, sexy detectives -- to turn to. Hired to track down Knox, Charlie’s Angels set their sights on his rival, Roger Corwin (Tim Curry), who owns Red Star Systems, the world’s largest telecommunications satellite network. Undercover as geishas, belly dancers and racecar drivers, the Angels and Bosley search for clues and further infiltrate Corwin’s circle of friends and business associates. It appears the Angels are well on their way to solving their biggest case yet ... until Dylan responds to a mysterious phone call that puts all their lives -- including Charlie’s -- in danger once again.

Jumping out of planes, rewiring computers, going undercover -- it’s all in a day’s work for Charlie’s Angels as they must dish out equal doses of cool detective work, combat skill and lethal feminine charm to survive their riskiest assignment ever. [More]

Starring: Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray

Starring: Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray, Matt LeBlanc, LL Cool J, Luke Wilson, Sam Rockwell, Kelly Lynch, Crispin Glover

Director: Joseph McGinty Nichol

Director: Joseph McGinty Nichol
Screenwriter: John August, Ryan Rowe, Ed Solomon
Producer: Leonard J. Goldberg, Nancy Juvonen, Drew Barrymore
Composer: Ed Shearmur
Studio: Columbia Pictures

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It's a hollow package that dumbs down wherever possible.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
05/20/08
Channel 4 Film
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This is nothing but trailer moments. Ex-pop video director McG couldn't organise a pillow fight in a bedding factory.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/09/06
Nigel Floyd
Nigel Floyd
Time Out
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This is the enjoyably dumb action movie that Mission Impossible could (and should) have been.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
10/30/02
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

In the end it's simply empty-headed fun, nothing more.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
12/10/01
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

A film whose slick editing and glib lines are absolutely no substitute for real drama and proper exchanges.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
04/16/01
Michael Thomson
Michael Thomson
BBC
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It strains to be funny with unwelcome forced cheese that instantly hits the floor, in the midst of inappropriate music and nonsensical movements by the actors that launch themselves upon us through rapid fire cuts and gaudily bright photography.

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02/07/01
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
UK Critic

The end result is muddled, to say the least; visually stylish, sporadically entertaining, yet all-too-frequently painful.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
01/01/00
Caroline Westbrook
Caroline Westbrook
Empire Magazine
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A radiantly dopey Saturday-night escape hatch.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
09/24/07
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

The film is the equivalent of the 'dumb blonde' of action movies. No plot? No problem. Smile pretty now.

Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | comment Comment
07/14/07
Joe Lozito
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound

The most fun movie of the year.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/06/05
Ron Wells
Ron Wells
Film Threat

Charlie's Angels is like a Hong Kong flick but without the bogus spirituality and excruciating schlock-pop ballads.

Full Review Source: Slate | comment Comment
06/30/03
David Edelstein
David Edelstein
Slate

Charlie's Angels never slows down, and even when it's not delivering the thrills or a fun fight scene, it's being just plain funny.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
06/24/03
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

A virtual big-budget explosion? Yes. A spectacle of three great actresses making fools of themselves? Sure. MTV-worthy martial arts monages that shamelessly rip off The Matrix? Yessireebob. But a movie? No. Not for an instant.

Full Review Source: Film Blather | comment Comment
05/22/03
Eugene Novikov
Eugene Novikov
Film Blather

Slick film fun like this doesn't come along very often.

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
05/20/03
Jim Shelby
Jim Shelby
Palo Alto Weekly

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03/14/03
Hollywood.com
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For a movie that gets its inspiration from one of the cheesiest television shows of the extra-cheesy 1970s, Charlie's Angels is surprisingly cool.

Full Review Source: Film Quips Online | comment Comment
02/08/03
John R. McEwen
John R. McEwen
Film Quips Online

[Charlie's Angels is] like watching somebody else play a video game.

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
10/02/02
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

A real mess, but that's somehow what makes it so damn fun.

Full Review Source: Montreal Film Journal | comment Comment
09/10/02
Kevin N. Laforest
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal

Although the action movie is the last bastion of the male star, Charlie’s Angels should change all that.

Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | comment Comment
08/02/02
Betty Jo Tucker
Betty Jo Tucker
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

This wants to spoof macho action movies.... But lacking a coherent script to link the jokes, these Angels are left without a prayer.

Full Review Source: Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) | comment Comment
06/18/02
Jeffrey Westhoff
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
 
 
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