this movie was painful to watch

Rating: 4/10 (16 June 2005)

I didn't quite walk out of the theater.
Here is a short list of the problems with this movie, with no spoilers: The action scenes were poorly choreographed.
The action scenes were poorly photographed.
The action scenes were few and too far between.
The car chase was poorly shot and poorly scripted.
The movie pacing was awful, and the directing was so poor they had to insert several awful cutaways to explain what was going on.
In a number of places the dark motif was so dark that you actually couldn't see what was supposed to be happening.
The main bad guy was an uninteresting and relatively unknown villain from the DC franchise. The secondary bad guy was better known, but too poorly conceived in the movie to have much impact.
The acting was stilted.
On the positive side, it was not as bad as the previous 2 movies in the franchise, but it does not compare with the first two. I liked the new bat-mobile.
I went into this movie with low hopes that it might be better than the previous movies. It was, but the margin was much narrower than other reviews led me to believe.