It's a hollow package that dumbs down wherever possible.
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.
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
Reviews for Charlie's Angels
This is nothing but trailer moments. Ex-pop video director McG couldn't organise a pillow fight in a bedding factory.
This is the enjoyably dumb action movie that Mission Impossible could (and should) have been.
A film whose slick editing and glib lines are absolutely no substitute for real drama and proper exchanges.
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.
The end result is muddled, to say the least; visually stylish, sporadically entertaining, yet all-too-frequently painful.
The film is the equivalent of the 'dumb blonde' of action movies. No plot? No problem. Smile pretty now.
Charlie's Angels is like a Hong Kong flick but without the bogus spirituality and excruciating schlock-pop ballads.
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.
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.
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.
Although the action movie is the last bastion of the male star, Charlie’s Angels should change all that.
This wants to spoof macho action movies.... But lacking a coherent script to link the jokes, these Angels are left without a prayer.
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