so so

Rating: 5/10 (4 August 2005)

Not sure what to make of it. I had really high hopes when reading all the positive reviews and maybe I was, therefore, expecting too much. It was a bit Kung-Fuey at the beginning (Grasshopper Bruce and the Master) , the special effects were good but overdone. The bat mobile scenes started to wear a bit thin for me and none of the actors impressed me although there were big names, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson. I have always thought that Batman should have superhuman powers so that the action scenes could be a bit more believable for me even although I realise that one must suspend belief when watching any movie based on a comic book. Since they were altering the storyline of Batman's beginning anyway, I would have been happier for Bruce to have been bitten by a radioactive bat and then maybe subjected to cosmic radiation or suchlike so that he could at least fly for real (oh my God ! why am I writing this ?) and have superhuman bat-strength or whatever. The movie didn't really click for me although I don't think it is a bad film. I was entertained but it dragged on bit for me (bad sign) so I have to give it a mediocre 5/10.