Lots of explosions, little else.

Rating: 4/10 (30 June 2005)

Weak. Special effects do not a great film make. With an all-star cast, with the likes of Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman, one would expect more character and plot development. However, Batman Begins is little more than a synopsis of many subplots lifted from 60 years of batman comic books haphazardly crammed into one film. No characters are really developed to any great degree, so it is difficulty to feel anything towards them. Sure, comic book fans will delight in the appearance of less well known characters like Ra's al Ghul, but they are ultimately shallow, and the feeble attempts to throw in a moral component to the hero's motivation is just not convincing.