a midnight ticket well worth it

Rating: 10/10 (15 June 2005)

i couldn't believe that i was watching this batman movie. in the first five minutes, i noticed my hands hurting because i was clasping them so hard. this movie is INFATUATING. and i consider it quite possibly the best movie i've seen. the reason i feel this is because i've never be so entranced by a movie before and i didn't expect it to come from a superhero movie. but we actually get to see batman and he's scarier than ever. you see bruce seek training to become who he is and you see his transformation into batman. but Christian bale's batman performance was what got me. when i heard him speak, he actually scared the crap out of me. he is so intimidating and we actually have a batman who will scare people. this movie was scary all over, with batman, the scarecrow and his hallucinations. this is not a bright, upbeat "yea! superhero" type movie. it is gritty and intense. and the best part is that you can actually believe that batman is simply a man, driven psychologically to be who he is, not a mutant. go see for yourself.