The best Batman film of the five...

Rating: 8/10 (18 June 2005)

This film is the salvation of the Batman films... erasing the devastating effects of the digression prone George Clooney train wreck "Batman & Robin". The film not only evidences the best Batman film but the "definitive" Batman in Christian Bale. Keaton and Kilmer were both excellent, but Bale is the perfect vision of Bob Kane's malevolent nocturnal character and the his alter ego as playboy Bruce Wayne. The film's narrative is the most true to the comics, and unlike the fun but flawed 1989 original Batman's origin is properly and correctly explained. All that and the Joker was not myopically killed!
My top 4 live action Bat films: 1. Batman Begins (2005) 2. Batman Forever (1995) 3. Batman (1989) 4. Batman Returns (1992) X. Batman & Robin (1997) is not worthy of the Bat list