Film #9: WHAT WOMEN WANT (2000)

What Women Want was a horribly predictable film. For those out there that like the conventional rom-com movie that follows the same narrative structure then this is the film for you. But I found that the film dragged and even though it tried to give women power in actually just took it away and once again stereotyped women into all being needy, emotional trainwrecks that are dependable on a man being in their life in order to be happy. Well women are not like that, especially in today's society as well!
The film features the traditional sex obsessed bachelor, Nick (Mel Gibson), who only wants alcohol and one night stands. After his promotion is denied to him as given to a woman, Darcy (Helen Hunt), he decides to take a research task to the extreme and ends up electrocuting himself in his bath with a hairdryer. Once he wakes up he realises that he can hear women's thoughts. After getting over the initial shock he decides that he likes his new power and uses it to manipulate women to getting ahead in his job and to getting someone to going to bed with him. Also the powers help him open up to his daughter from his divorced marriage which helps her when she experiences bad boyfriend troubles at her prom. However like in any rom-com film he soon realises that he actually loves Darcy and the more he read her mind the more he has realised this.
This is the first film I would not recommend people to watch, along with the Twilight films!