Ordinary Ordinary Film

Rating: 6/10 (17 June 2005)

This film has an excellent Supporting Cast that work as hard as ever to support two very poor leads.
While I wouldn't rate this as the worst of the Batman Movies (Batman & Robin has that honour) it is definitely somewhere just above or level with Batman Forever.
Christian Bale, was a fantastic Bruce Wayne, but a TERRIBLE Batman. If the duality of the character can't be pulled of convincingly you don't you are on the back-foot from the beginning. Not as bad as George Clooney (but hey even Adam West was better than GC). Katie Holmes was unconvincing.
You can expect the usual stellar performances from Liam Neeson, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman. Gary Oldman was wasted, I believe. His role just wasn't important enough.
Too much CG, and not dark enough for my liking. Tim Burton is still the king of the Batman Films.
I really wanted to like this film, but left thinking, well nothing really. There are same great one liners in it, that keep the film from getting boring. But I would wait for DVD.