A Necessary Reboot

Rating: 6/10 (4 March 2017)

In search of a meaningful way to combat injustice and strike fear into the hearts of evil men, "Bruce Wayne" (Christian Bale) makes his way to a special temple high on a in Bhutan. While there he learns special skills and techniques but most importantly he learns how to isolate and combat his own fears as well. After a major disagreement with the leadership of the temple Bruce Wayne returns to Gotham City and it's then that he adopts the symbol of his greatest fear and becomes the caped crime-fighter known as Batman. But even though he has success against evil what he doesn't know is that a plan has already been put in place to destroy the entire city and he has little time and few allies to help him. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this particular movie was a necessary reboot after the last film ("Batman & Robin") and as such deserves a certain amount of credit. That said, however, I also happen to think that-like some of its predecessors-there were too many characters and subplots thrown in which in this instance caused the film to have a longer running time that necessary. Even so, it was a decent movie by and large and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.