Still waiting for a better cinema

Rating: 5/10 (15 May 2013)

Sorry to be a discordant voice, compared to general appreciations for the film, but I found the film very mediocre. Of course the virtuosity in the action scenes is there, and some are truly spectacular (like when Batman goes to Hong Kong to capture the banker of the Mafia), but the total lack of credibility makes the movie confusing and never really exciting. The viewer is never able to forget he is watching a movie, to be immersed totally in the story, to feel a breeze of truth. And the beauty of cinema is all there: in creating the right conditions to unlocking this feeling of total immersion in the truth (even only for the duration of a few seconds). And above all, the film lack a deep meditation on "good vs evil", although drafted in a rather crude and clumsy way. The battle should have been more "internal", in the heart of the Batman character, knowing that good and evil are similar, but that the search for harmony is above everything. However, we are probably asking too much for this movie, born in an era in which the cinema is still unable to find the beauty of the films of a recent past, when you went out of the theater with this feeling of having lived a touching experience. But this is an era of great changes and men are evolving rapidly, sooner or later this evolution will also be "reflected" in the seventh art.