Tim Burton's was better.

Rating: 9/10 (18 June 2005)

This one was definitely darker than the other Batman films, which a lot of people praised. The Tim Burton film was sufficiently dark, but also had enough humor in it to make it a fun movie. Batman Begins was so concerned about anger and grief that, for me at least, it never really engaged my "inner child," which, to me, is the point of a superhero movie.
There are people I know who would hear me say that and tell me that I don't understand Batman or that I don't understand comic book heroes in general. That may be so, but the fact remains that this movie fun in the same sense that Spider-Man or even Burton's Batman is. Whether that's a positive aspect or a negative aspect of the film is, I suppose, a matter of personal taste.
That being said, I thought the production was beautiful and there were some good performances. Chicago was very well used as the location of Gotham City (was anyone else reminded of The Blues Brothers during the car chase sequence?). Christopher Nolan is, in my opinion, the best living filmmaker under the age of 40, but Insomnia and Memento were more complex films in terms of story and character.
Maybe if Batman was an insomniac with a short term memory disorder ...