Realistic approach paid off

Rating: 10/10 (27 June 2005)

Christian Bale IS Batman.
Michael Caine IS Alfred.
The rest of the cast is equally good. The plot and effects are just as good as I expected. But most importantly, fighting is not what this movie is about, it is about motivation for certain actions and moral justification of it. Plus, of course, the psychoanalytic question about which of two is the mask and which is the face - Bruce Wayne or Batman.
I tried to find backdrops, but failed to find any big ones. Maybe, there could be a bit more of Scarecrow (was it really him, who was defeated at the end, or was it a robot?) Also, the titan League was a somehow ill explained thing. Why would they want to destroy a fully-fledged Gotham, if they could prevent its building in the first place? But all that becomes relevant only after you see the movie, which is utterly enjoyable.