Not bad, not great

Rating: 6/10 (15 December 2003)

Not bad, not great. It helps if one comes into this film remembering that this is a COMIC BOOK STORY!!! (By the way, when did comic books get euphemized to "graphic novels"?) Actually, though, I never read the "Batman" comics. (I did like the '60's TV show, but hey, I was seven. Surely that show's target demographic.) I liked it that Batman is dark and brooding, and not a happy superhero. The cast all did well, playing the material properly, as a comic book, and not doing realism. And anything with Michelle Pfeiffer in it is worth seeing. Worth a look. Grade: B-