A Worthy Batman!!

Rating: 9/10 (29 June 2005)

Finally...a Batman that is NOT driven by the villains, with an actor, (Christian Bale), who is worthy to play the Dark Knight! The movie takes quite a while to get started showing all of Bruce Wayne's training, with various flashbacks that can get confusing, but it all leads up to a fantastic appearance of Batman! The only negative thing I can say about it is that the fight scenes move so fast, you can't tell what is happening. Batman has some GREAT lines, like, when the bad cop says, "Swear to God", and Batman replies, "SWEAR TO ME!". Christain Bale plays the Dark Knight with true and complete emotion and projects real "fear" into the criminal mind. Cillian Murphy as the Scarecrow was also a delight in the movie...however, I felt he should have been the main villain and NOT Raj a Goul, played by Liam Neeson, although, it made for a GREAT plot twist! (Cillian Murphy is just a SUPER HOTTIE!!!) Finally, Christian, you need to go see a dermatologist!! There are two moles on your face that need to go, one on your throat and one on the inside right of the upper portion of your nose, right next to your eye that are just distracting on the big screen!! This is a FANTASTIC movie....FINALLY taking the silly "campiness" out of the franchise...I hope to see at least one or two more sequels!