Charlie's Angels

This is kinda disappointing - as someone who really liked the first "Charlie's Angels" film and thought the second had its moments, this kinda falls flat. It largely has to do with script and direction here - things just generally fail to be fun and frivolous, and there's way too many plot complications and comedy-that-doesn't-quite work. Kristen Stewart does pretty damn well here (there's a whole separate movie here which is basically "Finally Kristen Stewart gets to have fun") and as the other two Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska have their occasional moments (Scott as a tech-nerd pulled into helping the angels when her company's project turns out to have evil consequences, Balinska as the serious-minded ex-MI6 agent), but the film generally fails to take advantage of the three women getting to play together as a team - the plot setup has them as a team coming together over the course of the mission rather than as the well-oiled team we remember from previous entries, and there's never really a moment that they snap into place and become something solid, so their team bond is more something we're told is happening than something we can see. It's proof that making a fun bouncy piece of nonsense is harder than it looks.