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By STEVE PERSALL
Published July 22, 2004
Catwoman (PG-13) has nine lives, and Academy Award winner Halle Berry inhabits No. 5, outfitted with a sexy leather costume that may steal the show. In this version, directed by some French guy named Pitof, Catwoman swaps Batman for Bratt-man (as in Benjamin Bratt, playing a detective) and faces a femme fatale (Sharon Stone) with equally sharp claws.
Berry plays Patience Phillips, employed by a cosmetics company owned by Laurel Hedare (Stone), who has a deadly product to market. When Patience uncovers the scheme, she's drowned in a river but resurrected by a cat. (Go ahead and snicker; it's okay.) Patience is endowed with catlike reflexes, a tuna fetish and a vengeful attitude. Or is that cat-itude? Don't worry, there are plenty of other feline puns for the three screenwriters to employ.
A crime spree is attributed to Catwoman, putting detective Tom Lone (Bratt) on her tail. He'll lose some professional objectivity when she rubs against his leg. Don't be flattered, Ms. Berry: The same thing happened to crimefighters when Julie Newmar, Eartha Kitt, Lee Meriwether and Michelle Pfeiffer donned Catwoman costumes.
A review of Catwoman will be published Friday on Page 2B.
[Last modified July 21, 2004, 10:39:43]
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