Rehash of 1st movie, BUT STILL GOOD!!!!

Rating: 8/10 (16 June 2005)

Hmmm.........Lets see.... An extended scene of batman in the bat-mobile with a girl that he's rescued, a villain who decides to use poison gas as his weapon of choice, poison gas released on Gotham, Gotham people turning into an uncontrollable mob....thug screaming out "Where are you?" instead of "Who are you?".....Is any of this sounding even a little familiar? My only beef with this movie is that much of this movie's content seems to have already been done by Burton in the first movie. Was this intentional? Maybe a tongue in cheek tribute to Burton? Dunno..While Bale did sort of sound like he was trying and failing to cough something up whenever he spoke, that part when he was yelling at Flass was COOL.Oh yeah....Liam Neeson as.....RA'S AL GHUL?!? Since when is Ra's CAUCASIAN?!? Where's Talia? Has Nolan not read, "Bride of the Demon?" Wasn't Flass a built, former green beret with a crew cut? Oh yeah, and Commissioner Loeb was short, bald, fat, and not of African American descent according to, "Batman Year One." I guess Nolan has not read that book either...Still, compared to the unholy abomination that Schumacher's sadistic mind spawned, this was a GOOD MOVIE. NO BAT NIPPLES!!!!!! NO ROBIN!!! NO ALICIA!!! And it had Zsaz........