I love Batman, but this movie...

Rating: 1/10 (15 June 2005)

Warning Spoiler:
I did not like it, here's why...
Well for one thing there was no Batman in the movie for about an hour and a half. The whole story line was his past with his parents and when they were murdered. There was half an hour of flashback scenes that were not needed. The acting by the child and parents were horrible. Another thing is for an hour they showed him in "training" to become batman with Ghul which in my opinion was useless and boring. I kept looking at my watch in disappointment. Then the whole plot line was horrible, which thinking a man in a penguin suit and a woman who becomes a cat is quit lame, but this plot was lame on film. It was about a weapon that was stolen from Wayne Enterprises and it evaporates all the water pressure and people go crazy, looked like non man eating zombies, and o by the way its the scarecrow and he is not the same scarecrow that he is in the books which was also disappointing. Another thing was this was supposed to be the Darkest batman ever, and it was not... That was disappointing as well... Another thing was the acting, not very good, but bale is an excellent dark night. And Morgan freeman wasn't bad... Finally at the end they leave it open for a sequel, and hand batman a joker card, which in my opinion was awesome how they did it, but the jokers been done there are so many more interesting villains... Another problem was Gotham city it was so dirty and fake looking. I was even disappointed in the tumbler scene and hell I was there when they filmed it and it looked awesome at the time but not on film...
It was the only staff show I have ever been to were no one clapped at the end. But everyone else said they liked it, I however did not... Out of 15 people 2 hated it.
Don't get me wrong the movie was OK, just not worth wasting 10 $ on unless you are a super fan who just has to see it. However I loved Christian Bale as batman, my other favorite Batman was Micheal Keaton and Iwould say Christian bale def. is comparable. There are also a lot of bats in the movie which I thought was awesome... I guess I was just really disappointed...
I live in IL and the only reason all the critics are giving it a good review is because it was filmed in Chicago. They talk more about Nolans ability to take Chicago and capture it on film than they do batman... I noticed that watching the news today...
If you want more details email me I will see it again and let you know if my opinion changes...
Sorry I forgot to mention that Batmans mask was horrible, the rest of the costume was amazing, but the mask made him look like he had no neck and made him look kinda funny...
And Batmans voice sounded like he has been smoking since the age of 5...