C'mon Honestly

Rating: 4/10 (26 July 2008)

What an anti-climax! There we go, I said right it off the bat.
If Nolan wanted a character driven movie... he failed. Maggie Gyllenhall was like a wooden version of Katy Holmes, which I thought wasn't possible. Also playing a two timing hussy wasn't exactly an endearing quality.
I'm tired of listening to Bale over-act Batman, someone fix his speech impediment please so he doesn't look & sound like he's trying to lay a Guiness World Record pineapple. How anyone can get an Oscar is beyond me, Ledger doesn't actually get enough screen time in my view & making slurping noises with your mouth doesn't sell crazy. Heath said that he wanted audiences to forget Jack Nicholson as the Joker but I was often thrust down memory lane, all the way back to the original Batman. Nicholson had been playing crazy long before Batman, One Flew Over the Cockoo's Nest, The Shining etc, so Ledger really had a tough task... in which he did OK but not Oscar nommie stuff.
Also, what happened to the dark 'gothic' Gotham City Burton created? You can't have CGI Two Face in a normal looking US city, I wanted the full dark comic style of old!
It felt like the movie dragged a little & had some weird head shaking anomalies, eg: When Batman drops Mafia Boss, seemingly breaking his ankles but later he seems fine with his ornamental walking stick. I couldn't help laughing at Batman's motorbike & the great wall stunt.
Not at all what I had hoped for in this semi-entertaining film... the Box Office is happy tapping into the female ticket sale as they finally go & see a Batman movie for their lost heart throb Heath but I heard snoredom from the rows of girls behind me.
Bring Burton back to Batman!!!