Charlie’s Angels (2019)

When a young whistleblower becomes a target, the new generation of Charlie’s Angels team steps in to save her and solve a corporate conspiracy.

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times… I don’t judge films; I judge their intentions. There might have been bad/horrible films that meant well, but they faced issues due to budgetary reasons or other unforeseen circumstances. Not this one, though! Charlie’s Angels is, unfortunately, undermining human intelligence. Despite Elizabeth Bank’s efforts to convince us that whoever doesn’t watch her film is sexist, the film itself couldn’t be more sexist. She tried to mitigate the successes of previous female-led films by saying that even they were meant to be profusely for the male audience. Finally, even after her film flopped at the box office and the critics ‘buried’ it (so no one finds it ever again), she was still proud of it.

I have nothing much to say about the film: Writer/producer/director/actress Banks and the rest of the producers prove that they do not know what real fighting or Krav Maga is. The same applies to spy games, corporate espionage, and the appreciation of the human (male) life – see how both men’s death is treated (excluding the T-1000 lookalike assassin). The action couldn’t be more laughable, and the messages it is trying to convey are horrendous. To cut a long story short, this Charlie’s Angels rightfully earned its flop, just like Ocean’s 8 (2018) did the year before. What were they thinking? By portraying white men as villainous and stupid, will the film instantly perform well? It is an embarrassment. And that’s me done about the waste of my almost two hours.

There is something else that the creators of this film have no grasp of: How it is to be stuck into a 9-5 job that you hate or do 24-hour shifts round the clock. One of the things they would have learned – which would be beneficial to the film as well – is that wherever there is no diversity, there is a problem. Have you ever been to a working environment with just women? The amount of bitching is unfathomable! Have you ever been to a working environment with only men? Plainly boring and dull! This world needs diversity, and we all need each other equally to move forward. Furthermore, we must stop being proud of what we haven’t earned.

Elizabeth Banks is extremely talented both in front of and behind the camera, and I will continue to be a fan regardless. Watch her Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) and watch her in People Like Us (2012) to get an idea. It is a shame that she tried to please the masses and pretentious social media groups. Because they didn’t even care about her effort.

P.S. To the mindless side of Hollywood: Stop treating us like we are dumb. We know life better than you do!

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