The worst of them all

Rating: 5/10 (6 August 2008)

This is indeed the worst of Batman's movies just because they have tried to make of it the best of them all and failed. This time besides the lots of action and explosions and computer made effects all of excellent quality, they have tried to inject also lots of philosophy and morals in the movie. The former turned out very cheap and the latter rather manichean in the sense of drawing a straight line between good and evil like if it was black and white and tried to pass a message on that. These action movies have everything to gain if they stay just in the aesthetic area where they belong: to amuse and entertain and don't try to bite off more than one can chew, mainly their usual fans. We don't expect of these movies a deep story but only the usual cheap one so it's better they don't try to sell us something more than good action and excellent images and visual sequences. Furthermore the story in this movie is full of unexplained flaws and loose ends. It has so many loose ends indeed that when they try to tie them up in the end to make a plausible finale (happy or unhappy end that wouldn't matter) they are unable to do it and the movie ends abruptly in the middle of the story in a poor way (like if they think of making a further episode but that's what you do when you don't know what to do to end it properly). Let's hope that the next episode of this saga is more modest in its pretensions and is then able to be classified as a good movie.