a fantastic film that saved batman

Rating: 9/10 (17 October 2014)

After the messes that were batman forever and batman and robin this film has literally saved batman and finally giving us the film that this new era of batman fans deserve. Thus film sees Bruce Wayne attempting to get justice for the death of his parents by fighting criminals, under the guidance of his mentor ducard he returns to Gotham city and becomes the batman. Now I really do believe that Christian bale is the best batman we have ever had because he was great as the phoney carefree billionaire that Bruce Wayne is but was also great at being the intense batman that strikes fear into criminals. The supporting cast is also top quality, Michael caine was the perfect casting as Alfred as he brought a sense of loyalty and parenthood to the film but also provided well done comedy as well in this dark film. Liam neeson is one of my favourite actors and this film is no different as he is fantastic as ducard really providing great chemistry with bale. One of the worst things about the old batman films was the character of Jim Gordon but oh no not in this film, Gary oldman does a fantastic job in the role and proves he can do good guys. Katie Holmes as Rachael was good and I think she had good chemistry with bale in this film but she isn't as impressive as the rest of the cast. Now the story is great, I love seeing Bruce Wayne's training and the reasons given to him for becoming batman, also there is a big swerve taken in this film towards the end and it is truly fantastically done adding to the overall spectacle. The script was good but sometimes some of the dialogue didn't hit me like it was supposed too and I really think that is the only criticism I have for the whole film. The style is the best in batman history with all the cool gadgets and the more ninja based batman it provided better action and also the cinematography is off the scale for this film deserving its Oscar nomination. Overall this is an utterly fantastic film and I thank Christopher Nolan for saving batman.