Just couldn't get into it

Rating: 4/10 (26 July 2008)

Very mild spoilers.
Excited for Dark Knight, I bought this DVD because it was dirt-cheap. I've loved batman since I was little, especially the Tim Burton movies. Even with some Smirnoff in me, I simply couldn't enjoy this movie.
Where to begin? Bruce Wayne's "training" feels like a deleted scene from Kill Bill Vol. 2. The whole scene feels out-of-place, as if it belongs in a different movie. The part where his parents are shot is nowhere near as haunting or effective as in the original Tim Burton version. The plot is just ridiculous, and the villain isn't the least bit menacing or interesting.
Christian Bale, who was fantastic in American Psycho, gives a very boring, stiff performance here. He provides almost no personality to Bruce Wayne at all. The movie is overlong and drags horribly in several scenes. The fight scenes (the few that are in there) are poorly directed and shockingly underwhelming.
Sorry, but I can't recommend this one. And I really wanted to like it!