Poor

Rating: 9/10 (22 September 2006)

I only got round to watching this film after it had been released on DVD. I just really didn't want to see it because I had a feeling it was bad. However so many people were praising the film that I had to see it. My gut feeling was right the movie was bad. The direction was awful, as well as the plot, the script was childlike, the art direction and costume design was nothing special. Just overall the film failed, it tried to be stylish and it failed. At some points the script tried to be funny and it failed painfully. I thought Caines Alfred was horrible and just didn't suit his Cockney accent, Morgan Freeman did a good job playing Morgan Freeman! When I heard that Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard were both doing the score for the film I thought that we were all going to get something really excellent as they are both two of the best composers of the moment, but what we got was something trying to be different but turning out rubbish; nowhere even close to Elfmans legendary themes. What made the film even worse was Nolans direction, he doesn't know how to direct action sequences. On the plus side though some of the positives of the film were Christian Bales performance as Batman, i thought he did a really good job as well as Liam Neeson and Tom Wilkinson. The cinematography was really good as well. Overall I though this film was nothing special, it was really hard to watch it all the way through. I give it a 4/10.