It makes me hate life...

Rating: 1/10 (13 December 2005)

I'm a huge Batman fan, I love the comic books, and the earlier movies are among my fave movies of all time. I had great expectations for this movie, but unfortunately...
It was awful. For many reasons. First, how can you make a movie that preaches to be 'the origin story of Batman', and then re-write that origin? And why was everything brown? The choice for actors looked good, with Bale as a young Batman and Neeson as Ras al Ghul. However the movie is poorly written and very poorly directed. Batman acts very little like the true Dark Knight, and Bale did not translate his persona well at all. The villains were, in one word, pathetic shells of their former selves.
The plot was garbage, and confusing garbage at that. And do I even have to mention the fight scenes? As far as I'm concerned, this movie should never have come into existence.