Am I taking crazy pills? this film fooled me twice!

Rating: 1/10 (25 February 2007)

I saw this film when it went to DVD and thought it was just rubbish.
I heard other people enjoyed it and I saw the favourable rating here and gave this film a second chance screening...
My partner and I made it through 20 or 30 minutes before reaching the decision to eject and watch something more entertaining.
I like escapist fun, adventure and action. This film is a cartoon at heart - the dialogue is atrocious and plot completely implausible. But all that is okay if the film is fun and colourful like the original Batman. Trouble is this farce presents itself so earnestly and it's violence in such a dark, gritty and over produced/acted manner that there was no room to just let go and enjoy the ride.
I recognised much of 'The Shadow' in the first 1/2 hour where batman did some ridiculous far-eastern training. However where this was bloated, egotistical twaddle The Shadow *WAS* fun - it wasn't great cinema but that's OK when you just want something silly.
This is 'silly' dressed up as something it never could be and in our opinion failed completely.
The 1 star is for a film I wasted 2 pennies on because everyone is afraid to give average movies average scores. Are we that hard up for good cinema that this film gets 8/10?