Angels' Share

The deal was: I could watch Charlie's Angels (2019) in exchange for a horror movie TBA. Ms. Spenser did not bother to join me in this watch.

I'll keep it short: sexy Kristen Stewart is seducing a gangster, then holds him down while a team of women invade the penthouse, lead by Ella Balinska. They do some banter. Later, Naomi Scott, a scientist working for a high-tech energy company has found out that the McGuffin is really - ah who cares. She goes to the Angels for help, because that's who K. Stew and Balinska are. 

Now, I never watched the TV Angels, but I did watch both of the 2000 version and its sequel. I assume this one builds mainly on those movies. They open the world up, so that there are maybe hundreds of Angels, and dozens of Bosleys. The 2003 sequel replaced Bill Murray's Bosley with Bernie Mac, this movie includes Patrick Stewart, Djimon Housou and director Elizabeth Banks as Bosleyses. We also meet the Angels' "saint" - their armorer, dietician, massage therapist, and eye candy, Luis Gerardo Mendez.

So, Stewart is the sarcastic lesbianish one, Balinska is the intense, hard punching one, and Scott is the new girl. They fight crime. Also, someone in the Townsend Agency is working for the other side. 

This isn't really terrible, but it isn't great. The McGuffin is so unserious that they add "blockchain" to the bafflegab describing it. The pace is very uneven, and the big training montage comes at the end. There are plenty of jokes and good moments, and the action is pretty fun. My theory is that it was a little too self-conscious and maybe too meta. Of course, I might not be the target audience. But the leads are fun - Stewart strong and sexy, Balinska more so, and Scott just cute. I'd probably watch a sequel.