What Men Want
(2019)
Overview
Magically able to hear what men are thinking, a sports agent uses her newfound ability to turn the tables on her overbearing male colleagues.
Director
Adam Shankman
Writers
Tina Gordon, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory, Jas Waters, Tina Gordon
Top Billed
Taraji P. Henson
Keywords
Top Billed Cast
Crew
Reviews
Gimly
⭐ 3/10July 17, 2019
I knew there was a What a Women Want reboot in the works, and my interest was **zero**.
I heard they were flipping the script a la genders, and it was still zee - row.
Cast Taraji P. Henson in the lead and I was like: "Fuck... I'm gonna have to watch this now aren't I?"
And so I did. But I probably shouldn't have.
_Final rating:★½: - Boring/disappointing. Avoid where possible._
Kamurai
⭐ 6/10January 21, 2021
Good watch, could watch again, and can recommend.
While it's potentially problematic for many of the same reasons for the Mel Gibson "What Women Want", I think this is a much better version, and a good modernization. It's also a good way to shift it to a "black movie".
Taraji P. Henson does an excellent job carrying the movie and it is full of good humor, and exciting moments.
The movie does send a little bit of a mixed message as it se…
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GenerationofSwine
⭐ 1/10January 12, 2023
Well, it has less that 5 Stars and I think that is a very good thing. Less than a year ago giving a movie like "What Men Want" anything less than a perfect score would have created a Ghostbusters style backlash to anyone that even remotely suggested it might not be better than The Godfather.
And then Oceans 8 flopped...and got mainly positive reviews based principally out of fear...and had a cast that mostly seemed disinterested in attacking a…
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Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$20,000,000
Revenue
$69,766,483