The main problem of the movie is in the writing

Rating: 5/10 (20 June 2005)

I actually didn't like the movie that much, I'm actually a fan of Batman returns, because i've always enjoyed Tim Burton's storytelling, and of Batman Forever, which it's just pure undiluted fun. This movie doesn't have any bad acting, nor it's poorly directed, the movie it's really fast-paced and it's reflected in the score which doesn't change for much part of the movie, i think the main problem of the movie is in the writing, the scenes between characters are too short, so you don't have much time to relate to the characters, one moment they're talking to each other, then we move to another scene, then another, then an action scene, then an explanation scene, and although it looks good in paper, the lines just don't work, and they basically connect the movie, since some of them are heard on the beginning of the movie and then heard again at the end, not to mention that the lines are very pretentious and try to make even the most normal situation into a complete psychological and philosophical event (for example almost every scene that involves Rachel and Bruce, and some of Alfred's lines when he's not desperately trying to be funny, he should have leave that to Lucius Fox or the Gotham newspaper which has the funniest scene almost at the end of the movie). I didn't enjoy the bad guys that much, they weren't so threatening, with one amazing exception, played by Tom Wilkinson (Carmine Falcone), who it's just amazing, and even though he's in the movie for about half hour, it's completely memorable. I think the movie was ruined for me because i had really big expectations, and i actually had seen some scenes from the movie before i went to see it, for example the one where Bruce goes to the hotel, almost all the scenes with Lucius Fox showing Bruce Wayne all the hi-tech gadgets, and i thought the movie was gonna expand that, but the scenes were the same, and it's really not that crazy to say that the whole movie can be summed up by the trailer. On the good side of it, i think the batmobile steals the show, but as i said, scenes are very short and quick, so it steals the show for the 15 minutes it appears in it. if you wanna watch the movie don't expect it to be something really, really memorable, the movie it's not confusing, it's pretty clear in it's plot and plot twists, the problem is that it's a Two hour and fifteen minutes long movie that happens to fast, and doesn't stop to entertain us fully, or to connect us to it's characters.