11 Criminally Underrated Superheroes Hollywood Totally Ruined

11. Catwoman

Catwoman Halle Berry Photo 2
Warner Bros.

It really is amazing just how much 2004's Catwoman managed to get wrong. Like, it genuinely managed to mess up everything.

Not only did we get a Catwoman film that didn't actually have Catwoman in it (Selina Kyle is nowhere to be found here), it seemed to think that copying that playground scene from 2003's Daredevil with a cheesy basketball sequence was a good idea. To compound the film's failure even more the writers seemed to think that giving the main villain (played by Sharon Stone) an evil cosmetics plan was a compelling enough bad-guy plot to last its entire 100 minute running time.

There's just so much wrong with this film, and it's a shame too because Halle Berry genuinely could've done the part justice had she actually been allowed to, you know, actually play Catwoman. Still though, Berry was the real winner in the end, accepting her Razzie in person (Oscar in hand) and absolutely owning it in the process, even if her career has faltered badly in the film's wake.

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