What has happened to Batman?

Rating: Null/10 (18 June 2005)

This is an interesting but not very good version of Batman. This is how it all started, but it contradicts some of the original movies, and just gets wrapped up in itself too much to want to even try to be good. Here we see how Batman gets obsessed with criminals after his parents are killed. While there are some elements true to the original comics such as Batman's commitment to justice, where did these guys get the idea to have Batman's outfit manufactured by a corporation? Batman was all self made, it wasn't made by some dumb corporation. Batman and everything he did was his own conception, designed to strike fear into evil. Bruce Wayne going overseas, getting arrested?! This really wasn't in the original comic books, I have no clue where anyone thought this stuff up. Whatever they did the movie seems very unoriginal, borrowing more from video games, like Dawn of the Dead, and other cheesy Science Fiction movies, like Night of the Living Dead, this movie doesn't seem like any original Batman at all.
After seeing this movie I can respect the original, because Batman was in the start of the movie, his origins were not in the movie, and the movie was not boring like this one. The comic books were so cool because they had Batman in action, not because they had how Batman became Batman. And Commissioner Gordon, and Batman coming up together?! That is not something I ever read, but I guess after awhile some modern comic writers take Batman into a whole other dimension, far far away from what he was originally intended to be.
Christian Bale does a decent job as Bruce Wayne, Morgan Freeman looks out of place in this movie, Michael Caine does an excellent job as Alfred, but is given some horrible lines, like trying to persuade Bruce Wayne NOT to be Batman? Telling him to go party? I am the first one that would love to go out with some hot supermodels and destroy a town, but I doubt that Alfred would be the one telling me to do so. This is so far off from anything that the original Batman was conceived to be, all Batman does here is beat people up. While there was always fighting, Batman was always thinking, he had to outwit his opponents too. And Gotham City now wasterland, that Ra's al-ghoul wants to destroy because it is so corrupt? This is insanity, that was something I think in a cartoon of Batman, I think. Batman begins is nothing like any kind of a beginning. This has got to be a different Batman, because in the original Tim Burton has his own origins of Batman, that were a little more realistic to what Batman was in the comic books. Whatever Batman is now is just crazy, I didn't like Batman and Robin, but it was better than this. Hopefully this will be the last in the Franchise, it's too muddled by now, but I can always hope.