10 Action Movies That Prove Hollywood Hates You

3. Catwoman

Having learned nothing from Batman & Robin, Warner Bros attempted to compete with Sony’s Spiderman 2 at the summer box office by “reimagining” a supporting character from the Batverse, but succeeded only in serving up another critical and commercial failure. Let’s put that another way - if Spiderman 2 was 2004’s Aliens, then Catwoman was the year’s Howard The Duck.

Bearing no resemblance to Selina Kyle, the villainess who first appeared in Batman #1 (1940), Patience Phillips (Halle Berry) is a graphic designer (!) exterminated with extreme prejudice by Sharon Stone when she stumbles across a diabolical masterplan involving a skin cream with dangerous side effects (!?). This naturally leads to Berry running around in S&M gear with her midriff exposed, swearing vengeance on Stone and whoever greenlit a movie with cheesy effects, dreary action sequences and crummy logic.

Throw in a ‘comic relief’ gay character and you have a movie that, had it been a hit, would’ve shaken Western Civilization to its foundations.