Great first half, mediocre second

Rating: 8/10 (8 July 2005)

This movie is superb ... for the first half of the movie. It begins by explaining how batman became batman and does this in beautiful scenes, with good action and camera work. It sucks you right in and you believe it all :) Personally, I had some problems with how Gotham city and its civilians were depicted. Especially when Gotham city is under attack, the movie loses a lot of credibility. Suddenly the story gets kinda childish - amateurish.
Still and over-all the movie is quite entertaining and much better then the previous batman movies. A comic-book character turned to a real life possibility. Yes, Batman is alive, definitely !