If you loved watching Charlie’s Angel with a lot of beautiful action scenes twenty years ago, Charlie’s Angel 2019 will be a must-watched movie for you on the weekend.
The 2019 film has Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska as the main angels. It still has three main characters with a boss, but that boss is not Charlie. The boss of three girls here is the old angel Bosley, who used to experience many adventures and now is working to train other girls to be angels.
I admit that the story is not that good as I expected. While the new “Charlie’s Angels” has action and some humor in addition to nods to the original TV show and the two feature films, I feel that it disconnected, in my opinion, to the franchise from the older ones which it is based on. In this new version, there are multiple angels who work with various colleagues, who are each named Bosley. Patrick Stewart stars as John Bosley, who is retiring. Banks is called Boz, and she is working on a case with Kristen Stewart as Sabina and Ella Balinska as Jane. They seem to be recruiting a scientist named Elena (Naomi Scott), who has created a game-changing power device. Elena wants to fix a flaw in the device that allows it to be used as a weapon. I think the factor that makes the new version disconnect is that these three girls just get to know each other, while in the older versions, three angels worked together for a long time and were a part of each other’s life.
However, the clothes, physical appearances of the three girls are fancy and extremely cool, which made me very excited whenever I saw the girls. In addition, in my opinion, I think Charlie’s Angels 2019 did well on sending the feminist message to the audience: women are as independent, intelligent and cool as men. The feminist message, firstly, implied in the way the girls and their boss dress up. Banks—who’s swaddled in a range of luxurious coats and sunglasses herself as the Angels’ subtly wisecracking Bosley—is more interested in what those kinds of outfits symbolize how powerful a woman will be. Another feminist message in the film is from the film’s opening sequence in which a platinum-wigged Kristen Stewart educes a shady businessman over dinner in all the most obviously flirtatious ways. The fact that he has no idea she’s slowly but surely tying him up in literal knots is a testament to her skills but also his idiocy. Men can be malleable, and the women of “Charlie’s Angels” know how to use that to their advantage. Moreover, Elena (Naomi Scott), the girl who leads the girls and audience into this glamorous and dangerous world, is also a great role model for feminism. Her scientific strengths provide just the right complement for this team. If the statuesque Jane is the all-business brawn and Sabina is the quick-witted, wild-card decoy, Elena is the exceedingly capable brains of the operation, and it doesn’t take her long to get up to speed. She can also create as well as control the weapon that others want to take it as a tool to cause crimes.
In conclusion, Charlie’s Angels 2019 will be a chilled movie for all of you on the weekend, when you want to watch an action movie but not too much violent behavior. Enjoy it and see how women in this world are becoming independent.