what an awful movie

Rating: 2/10 (30 June 2005)

What an awful movie I went into this with the highest of expectations, after reading all the glowing reviews, and boy, was I disappointed
Come back Michael Keaton, all is forgiven. Tim Burton, you are a visionary.
C Nolan-- what oh what were you thinking
Every possible clichÃ©, every possible stupidity was in this movie
It was almost as bad as Spiderman (though saved from that ignominy by the absence of a "new-york solidarity" scene.
The only saving grace was Michael Caine, who delivered the best line (What's the point of all those push ups if you can't even move a block of wood off you").
Christian Bale tried hard, but had dire material to work with. Katie Holmes-- why was she in this movie?
There seemed to be a desire to turn Bruce Wayne and Rachel Dawes into longtime sweethearts- but the flashbacks showed only the minimum of interaction, so when Rachel says "the man I loved you're left wondering-- when exactly did you love this man??????
Liam Neeson-- totally wasted Morgan Freeman-- in it for the money and proud of it, another highlight ins this abysmal movie Gary Oldman--??????????
I know everyone's been raving about the car-- but after watching fast cars in another awful movie (The Fast and the Furious), for me the Batmobile lumbered like a tank, and didn't fly like a bat!
Yes some ideas were amusing, and some even clever, but overall the dialogue was substandard, and the lack of style unforgivable.
Tim Burton's Batman was the best-- Batman and Batman Returns will remain the defining movies for this comic-book world