Great movie - mediocre fighting scenes

Rating: 8/10 (12 July 2005)

Yes, OK, the cast is great, and it's without any doubt the best batman-movie since the first one with keaton/nicholson. BUT: Why are those fighting-scenes so damn zoomed-in? Most of the time at first you see the fighting characters in an overview camera position, and then you see single bodyparts in a very fast motion. As the film in addition most of the time is quite dark, you sometimes only can guess what exactly has happened! The other aspects of the movie are great, but that's why from my point of you it's not perfect. If i go to cinema and watch a movie with action-sequences, i want to see every single move, especially when the director said, that he used a mixture of different fighting styles that "looks outstanding". Perhaps this is somehow some sort of art, but i can't help myself comparing these fighting scenes with those of for example "equilibrium"(which wasn't a very expensive movie). In equilibrium you saw every move, the whole motion thing. it just also looked much more fluent.