It isn't bad, just not that Entertaining

Rating: 6/10 (14 March 2010)

This is one of the few movies in which I actually watched the sequel first. Maybe that is why I didn't enjoy this movie as much as the critics and audiences who praised it to no end. While The Dark Knight wasn't perfect, it goes down as one of the best sequels of all time, mostly because the film it is following, was incredibly overrated.
I may have mentioned before that I am not a big fan of superhero orgin stories. To me, they have way too much talking and exposition, and the sequels would handle the action, and thus be more entertaining. Now I know that they need to set up why Bruce Wayne became Batman, but do we really need to spend half the movie. I swear 20 percent of the movie is flashbacks. And when action does happen, it's horrendous. The action scenes in this movie are shot so poorly, and edited so sloppily, I can not tell what's going on. Christopeher Nolan is a fantastic director, so why did he choose to shoot the action scenes this way? So sense most of the movie is exposition, and the action scenes are terribly shot, the movie just isn't very interesting.
Now, I'm not saying this is a bad movie, for all it's faults, it does do some things extremely well. I did like Bruce's backstory, and found him becoming Batman to be kind of interesting. If it didn't take up 50 percent of the movie, I wouldn't complain too much. I really like some of the characters: Alfred, Gordon, and Dr. Crane. I thought Scarecrow was a much more interesting villain than Ra's al Ghul. The film looks amazing, the acting is good, and there are a few funny lines.
Batman Begins isn't a bad movie, it's just not particuarlly entertaining. The action scenes are horrible, and the set up goes on for too long. I admit it doesn't feel too long, and I really like the ending with the setup for a sequel. And I can see why the film is loved by so many people. When it first came out the last Batman movie we got was Batman and Robin.
The movie was OK, it was descent. Not one I will watch over and over again, but far from a terrible movie.