strangely enough, this movie is both disturbing and tedious

Rating: 3/10 (22 June 2005)

I'm sure you've read other people's reviews, so I'll spare the plot details. As I watched this movie, I decided that two words accurately describe it -- disturbing and boring. These aren't two words that usually go together, but batman begins was at times tedious and at times truly frightening. The scary parts remind me of Jacob's Ladder. The scarecrow gives people a dose of a hallucinogenic drug that causes victims to see the most frightening things imaginable. The way this is portrayed on screen so strangely and so often had me just wanting to leave. This is definitely not for young children. I think the director had some bad acid trips and decided he'd make these real for everyone with his multi-million dollar budget. The parts that weren't disturbing were slow and tedious. Repeated shots of young Bruce being traumatized. There was nothing uplifting about this movie. I'm not a fan of artificial comic relief (and there wasn't much of that) but I just kept waiting for some element of happiness to appear and it never did. If you're not a fan of the comics, I would say avoid this. I left the theater feeling worse than when I went in.