OK Nolan !

Rating: 6/10 (18 June 2011)

So they wanted to reinvent Batman. And they did it with a mentoring sequence, an evil mentor, a psychological problem, a Q from James Bond movies, a sweetheart from the childhood, good cop, bad cop, a scarecrow as an enemy, a drug to make the city in fear. OK. Good work.
(Christian Bale) isn't fit for Batman. I believe that he's a very good actor who got lost into Hollywood. The blockbusters aren't for him, and he's not for them. He's bigger, too serious, and lacking the glamour and the charisma of the action heroes; I didn't buy him in his fight scenes.
(Christopher Nolan) tries to pass in Hollywood. So he does a superhero big budget summer flick. Yes, there is a portion of seriousness, with a speech about beating the fear before it beats us, a decayed society, steps the rich people (namely Batman, or his parents) must take to rescue the city. But he didn't give me anything more, anything that belongs to him more than any other directors!
Look at the editing, OH MY GOD. It reminded me with an old movie from Honk Kong named (36th Chamber of Shaolin - 1978), one of The Shaw Brothers martial arts movies, where every shot nearly equals the other in time. You read that in (Batman Begins): the average length of a shot was 1.9 seconds. Aside from being too fast, as if the producers did it to squeeze too many events in not too long time, that style tinctured the whole movie with the same color, making the emotional, action, and dialogue scenes have the exact pace and taste. So nothing was special, and eventually I felt that I was watching an exhausting 2 hours trailer!
The phase of the lead living in the street wasn't utilized well. The mentoring didn't convince me that he became that able to overcome the entire League of Shadows, and destroy their domicile in no time. Some conversations between the characters were exaggerated and suddenly sophisticated, such as the ones between the lead and his butler, especially the one over having a "name and reputation". And (Rutger Hauer)'s character was useless, he was there just to suspect him as the hidden evil boss. So, overall, what I did love wasn't more than some work done in re-writing the world of Batman, and couple of hot action scenes.
It's an entertaining fluff, full of stars and explosions, but too hasty and a bit uneven. It feels that (Nolan) was working without much love for what he was doing, or maybe he was new in the industry of Hollywood entertaining fluff. Whatever the case may be, he wanted desperately to have the "ok" which, with the money this movie won, already happened. However, frankly, and compared to his work up to 2005, (Batman Begins) was the biggest and the worst movie he ever did.