While it will celebrate its 20th anniversary next year, this DC film remains the lowest rated by AlloCiné spectators. But who is it about?
Released in theaters on December 20, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom marks the end of a cycle for DC films in cinemas, which will soon be reinvented under the leadership of James Gunn and Peter Safran.
If the DC Extended Universe experienced more downturns than its producers hoped, between 2013 and 2023, it is a film released before that holds the prize for the least well-rated opus by AlloCiné spectators. Logic would dictate that we immediately think of Batman & Robin, but the latter is not “that” before last. In front of a feature film from the same universe.
With an average of 1.3 out of 5, obtained from 8,445 ratings, it’s Catwoman who takes the dunce cap. If the question of a spin-off led by Michelle Pfeiffer arose from her appearance in Batman, the challenge is without her, nor Tim Burton, that the film saw the light of day. But with a freshly Oscar-winning Halle Berry, in front of the camera of Frenchman Pitof. For what will remain the biggest public and critical failure of their respective careers.
The heroine has since made a comeback, in the guise of Anne Hathaway (The Dark Knight Rises) then Zoë Kravitz (The Batman), and shooting at an ambulance would be in vain. But it is clear that Catwoman remains undethroned in this ranking of which it would have done well without being the leader, while it will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2024. And that the lowest rated opus of the DCEU, Shazam 2, only has an average of 2.4 out of 5.
“Represented as a vulgar character, Catwoman is a clear failure which does not revolutionize the genre at all! A disaster with terrible special effects and above all millions thrown out the window”deplores chrischambers86. Malevolent Reviews speaks about “the worst comic book adaptation ever made and one of the worst cinematic products ever made”quite definitively, knowing that his review dates from 2013 and that he had undoubtedly seen Green Lantern at that time.
“Totally failed on every point” (Morgane B), it’s a film “fantastically rubbish” For scalpa_spirit And “one of the most beautiful turnips of recent years” according to Lepouceducoin. Of the 566 reviews posted to date, 195 are accompanied by the minimum rating (0.5 out of 5), or a little more than a third.
The production looks like Jean-Marie Poiré who would like to do David Fincher
And it’s an understatement to say that some texts are virulent. Sometimes amusing (“the production looks like Jean-Marie Poire who would like to do David Fincher“ according to an anonymous Internet user), sometimes quite disrespectful and of which we will not put an extract here. “How can Hollywood finance such a project?” asked another anonymous person in 2010 whose opinion we would like to know on certain blockbusters of recent years.
“Everything has already been said about this film: bad acting, ridiculous script, bad CGI special effects, costume totally out of step with the character of Catwoman etc…”concludes another anonymous person who probably did not know, in December 2013, that no DC production would have managed to do worse ten years later.
Fortunately for Catwoman, the character should be back in the sequel to The Batman, still signed by Matt Reeves and scheduled for fall 2025.