Why?!

Rating: 6/10 (12 January 2006)

Throughout the entire movie, I only understood about a quarter of this film. I know that Gary Oldman plays a guy named Jim Gordon. But who is he? What does he do? Is he some sort of cop? A detective? I don't know! Please tell me! Is Earle (played by Rutger Haule) that manager in Wayne Industries or something? I *think* he is. And I think Batman's actions, either played by Bale or the stuntman, were a little bit slow and not very exciting.
Cillian Murphy was pretty awesome in Red Eye playing the role of a kidnapping terrorist Jackson Rippner, but he does NOT belong here. About a month ago before the official movie was released in cinemas, there were posters and big images of Batman Begins on the front covers in kids' magazines like Disney Adventures showing the upcoming box office film. I seriously doubt that although this movie may appeal to some kids ages 5-12, they'll probably understand about 20% of the movie the most. I would've expected much better.
One of my friend said that after he saw it, he said it was really good, he probably gave it around 8 or 8.5 out of 10. At first when I saw the preview, I thought maybe it looked just OK, wouldn't mind seeing it, looks like 7/10 to me. Overall, it was just too elementary, some parts were extremely boring and a bit disappointing. Basically, the scene where Batman and Henri are wrestling in that monorail near the end was like the only good part in the whole movie. How about the part where Bruce grabs one of those drug dealers by the front and just says, "I'm Batman." You find that dramatic? Scary? Impressive? Totally pathetic. This was more of a drama movie than an action. And no tag line?! They have just got to be kidding me!
At the beginning, everything was going extremely tedious. And I kept muttering to myself, 'C'mon, when's the good part gonna happen?!' I thought there was going to be a major breakthrough around the middle or the end, but instead, its level of deterioration is still kept at a constant monotonous level.
This a movie of what I call 'complete arrogance'. It is clearly noticeable how it tries to capture your attention by combining an excessive amount of genres.
My rating: 6/10