Christopher Nolan saved the Batman franchise

Rating: 8/10 (19 January 2012)

After Batman & Robin and to a lesser degree Batman Forever the Batman franchise in movies was looking it might become extinct. I think it's a foregone conclusion that the Joel Schumacher Batman movies were just downright terrible and Christopher Nolan took what was a declining franchise and pulled it from the ashes to make it profitable again. He got away with all the campy stuff that Schumacher was doing and made it much more like a graphic novel adaptation then a comic book.
The series is far better off with Batman being a loner and stopping crime by himself then with lame characters like Robin or Batgirl.
An all star cast rounds out the ensemble with Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Liam Neeson, Ken Watanabe and Gary Oldman.