YMMV / Catwoman: Hunted

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Did Abaddon and Morax really believe Batwoman's lies about La Dama's orders? Or did they just take advantage of the excuse to go home that was presented to them?
• Ass Pull: Selina may be a good thief, but there was no way she could've slipped the Cat's Eye Emerald away unseen from Batwoman and the task force without them knowing. Even if the film dictate she's allow to get it in the end, it's still a bit hard to believe without a proper explanation or foreshadowing.
• Ending Fatigue: Some fans and reviews had cited the pacing seems a little off and that the mob meeting fight feels like the climax of the movie. But the film continues on pass that section for an extended fight scene in Paris with Catwoman and Batwoman's battle with Leviathan's ninja goons, Solomon Grundy and finally Minerva herself in her Cheetah form that, by the end, it feels very tiring.
• Magnificent Bastard: Catwoman, real name Selina Kyle, is a master cat burglar. After saving a group of girls from Barbara Minerva's trafficking ring in Sochi, Selina comes up with an intricate plan to take down Barbara and get enough money to make sure the girls are never in danger again. To do this, Selina allows her heist of the Cat's Eye Emerald to go wrong and lets herself be captured by Interpol to be used as a distraction so they can take down Leviathan. Later, after capturing most of the heads of Leviathan, Selina uses her quick thinking to take down both the much stronger Solomon Grundy and Barbara in her powered up form. Revealing her manipulations to Batwoman and the lead Interpol agents, Selina steals the Cat's Eye Emerald from their safe and heads back to her girls in Gotham, though planning a real quick stop in London to steal the Crown Jewels.
• One-Scene Wonder: Nosferata and Cheshire show-up for one fight scene and vanish after it's over.
• So Okay, It's Average: This sums up the general consensus of the film. While it has its fun moments and isn't considered to be bad, the film is held back by a poorly written plot, bad pacing and weak dialogue.
• Special Effect Failure:
  • A bit of a criticism from some is that the mouth flaps don't really look right when the characters are speaking, making some wonder if this was a botched job from the animation studio to have dialogue recorded more smoothly.
  • The integration of the CGI and 2D can get rather spotty at times. This is most noticeable in the car chase, where Catwoman looks pasted in in some shots.
  • In general, the movie's animation is far more fluid than many of the ones before it (notable in that this is the first film since Justice League: Doom to be outsourced to a Japanese studio besides The Answer Studio, whose animation was usually far more limited and stilted compared to the ones handled by Korean studios like DR Movie). While it works in some scenes, in others, usually whenever dialogue is involved, it can look rather sluggish. This leads to a lot of the above-mentioned lip-syncing problems due to the amount of inbetweening used.
• Unexpected Character: While Cheetah, Black Mask, Cheshire and Solomon Grundy are well known, the other characters faced in the movie are pretty C-list. Nosferata, Dr. Tzin, Boss Moxie and La Dama are obscure characters not associated with either Catwoman or Batwoman. Or each other for that matter, as none of them were ever members of Leviathan in the comics. By far the most obscure character is Oyabun Noguri (Mr. Yakuza, a title exclusive to this adaptation), who in the comics is the Yakuza boss who kickstarted Katana's origin story by killing her husband's brother.

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