Holy Hot Mess Batman!

Rating: 1/10 (22 June 2006)

Ohhh where to begin? I had been hearing so much about this movie. "Oh it is so much more like the original batman comic books". "Finally a serious Batman!" "Christian Bale is the best Batman" Blah blah blah. All three statements couldn't be furthest from the truth. This Batman film was the least like the comic book in so many ways I don't have room to write them all. I just cannot get over how many people are acting like this did something "better" or "more stylish" than the previous Batman movies. All the movie really did was make a complete departure not only from the universe of the previous Batman films but of the comic book world of the character created in the first place. The visuals were striking but no more striking than Burton's. The actors' performance were OK but Christian Bale as Superman was much the weenie at times and downright boring. Very very little is left the same from all previous representations that all is left is use of character names and places. Is that particularly innovative and creative? Uhhh no I don't think so. The action of the movie if you can really call it that was hardly groundbreaking or anything particularly exciting. Overall very slow moving at times and incomprehensible.