Certainly a worthy Batfink flick. I didn't like it as much as Batfink Forever, but it's close...

Rating: 7/10 (18 June 2005)

.....and it's also worlds away from those Burton 'Gothic City' fests we sat thru in '89 and '92. Them there Rocket Launching Penguins jest get me right THERE, ya know? If anything that was even Worse than the Clooney/Ahnold neon fest from '97, which clearly didn't have a clue what it was about or where it was going.
What works? Christian Bale as Bats, of course. Neeson as the Baddie, always worth watching him. Nice locale shooting in the glaciers, metns and the like. The city looked like Chicago or whatever, a semi-believable city instead of some nightmare of Burton/Schumachers'.I also enjoyed the Ninja-Bats take on things.
What doesn't? Scarecrow is hokey and not so effective. The plot was a bad James Bond 'ooo let's poison the Well and make everyone go Bonkers' thing. No one in their right mind would buy Katie Holmes as a DA. She looks 19 if that and just doesn't do it. I like her fine, but not in this part.
Added bonuses--the Tumbler, great stuff, nice turns by Morgan Freeman and Jim Gordon(as Ned Flanders), and of course Mikey Caine.
*** outta ****. Check it out.