Too dark, even for Gotham City

Rating: 5/10 (19 August 2008)

I watched this movie when I was a boy and I watched it again in these days because of the success of "The dark knight". I think Tim Burton has a great merit in some readings (the bat suit, the vehicle) of the batman character but he was too occupied with giving us his dark vision of the world and human relationships that he forgot the character itself and principle ones. Jim Gordon, always present in the comic book, is restricted as an appearance and the English humor of Alfred, like his very important role as MD, vanished. Yes, you can say that the penguin (Danny Devito) and catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer) do their dirty job in egregious way but even the role of the villains is overtaken by the enforcedly dark atmosphere that you can breath everywhere. Not thinking about the physical capabilities of Michael Keaton, Bruce Waine is a lone wolf but he has a public figure of playboy and crazy rich boy. In this movie There isn't any difference between Bruce Wayne and Batwan, suit apart. However there are amazing visual effects, considering the age, and the photography is excellent. Five on ten stars. Giuliano Cicolini