Good movie, but the writers/directors should have watched the original

Rating: 8/10 (22 October 2005)

Why does Bruce Wayne become Batman, because the Joker killed his parents. Not some loser off the street name Joe Chill. The joker's name is Jack Napier. Also missing from the scene where the parents die was the quote that Jack Napier made to the boy Bruce Wayne which Batman repeats to the Joker just before he lets Joker fall from the bell tower in the original Batman movie. I'm all for making prequels to a movie, but if your going to do any type of sequel or prequel you might want to watch the originals first. They do allude to the Joker at the end of the movie which begs the question of 'how do you bridge these movies together so they make sense'. Unless they resurrect Joe Chill and rename him Jack Napier in the sequel to Batman Begins, I fail to see the continuity between this move and the other Batman movies.