Don't know what all of the hype is about!

Rating: 6/10 (22 June 2005)

(Some spoilers throughout, but not much) I never really like the old Batman movies, but with all of the new superhero movies coming out over the past few years being pretty good, I decided to give Batman a shot. I liked the whole samurai aspect of the film, taking it back to the comic book days, but thats pretty much it. The first hour was great, but fell off tremendously after that. A few points can back this up. 1. Scarecrow was a terribly villain. Although his character was supposed to be serious, it looked terrible and ruined the darkness of the film. 2. speaking of darkness, all of the action was in the dark and you couldn't see what was going on. (Spoiler)3. The whole zombie thing towards the end was a really lame and could have been much better. 4. Finally, next to no gadgets were used. He used one or two bombs and threw a few bat star things, besides that, he used his grappling gun, nothing else. His car was cool, but it did nothing. He spent more time running away from things than actually using it in a cool way. The old bat-mobile did much more. Thats basically it, the movie was an average film with un-deserving above average ratings. Bottom line, a so-so story, little to no action and terrible characters. Go to a matinée if anything and save your money for War of the Worlds next week.