Great MOVIE...get it MOVIE...not prequel, sequel, weird spin off....You have to watch it....truly one of the best this year

Rating: 10/10 (15 July 2005)

Excellent movie overall with a great cast
The story was believable, enjoyable and perfect for a theater experience. It may not have been wholly true to the comics but as a movie by itself, it was good...perfect in almost every way..Much better then the previous Batman attempts made... They not only chose an outstanding actor and supporting actors but great characters and story lines... Absolutely loved the experience and felt the chills a good movie should have...not many have had those...even better-excuse me- than ROTS and thats as a star wars fan...
Downs There are some awkward dialogue like throwaway lines BUT the pacing of the movie was PERFECT...The plot had its twists but wasn't too hard to follow and made one hardly realize time passed by...I was shocked that it had been over 2 hours...Really hardly felt like such... Acting ...was good although I like many felt wasted talent...the bad jokes could have been replaced with supporting character development such as Fox(used disappointingly, only as a tech guy-, and Gordan and the villains, Falconi got put away too quick and there wasn't enough of a back story for The crazed fear obsessed Dr. Crane, however a great and chilling villain, had a foggy background as there was no discernible drive...Falconi had greed but Crane??-... Christian Bale's voice was....bearable to say the least... Liam Neeson as usual had an excellent performance as Ducard well as Morgan Freeman always, Gary Oldman a true chameleon, this time a good guy Michael Caine perfect in his role in every single way, truly. A great, eerie performance from Cillian Murphy as Dr. Crane... Worst character ...was sad to say Katie Holmes as Rachel...not to say she is really a bad actor but it was just bad scripting as the words felt...dry...she acted too much the part of the "girl next door" character and lost credibility as a DA assistant as well as pushing the whole good people thing too far...
The only mistakes I think were there were listed above Really great movie experience...