Worth the price of admission except ...

Rating: 9/10 (24 June 2005)

"Batman Begins" is worth the price of admission. The visuals of Gotham were outstanding, better than the first Batman movie. The story was an interesting explanation of the genus of Batman and Christian Bale and Michael Cain were inspired choices for the lead roles.
The only complaint I had with the making of the newest incarnation of Batman was the "shaky camera" action scenes. In my opinion this technique is nothing more than a sign of producers and directors who don't want to spend the time and money to choreograph the action scenes. They throw a couple of actors on the set, have them run around a bit and shake the camera. Toss in some music and they have a action scene. It is a technique best employed by a high school film club not a professional movie maker.
I still recommend this film to fantasy/action fans (who isn't?), I just wish Hollywood would get back to real action scenes and dump the shaky camera.