Didn't Enjoy the Whole Movie

Rating: 5/10 (9 January 2009)

I didn't enjoy the whole movie and the parts I did enjoy still didn't make up for this letdown. Plot: Nothing new. Seen it all before. Bruce Wayne fights the bad guys in Gotham City while disguised as the batman. Boring. Of course the police chief, the mayor, the district attorney and some rich guys are all there as usual doing the same old thing - politic'n. Boring. The fight scenes: unrealistic. Bruce's punches are too slow for a fist fight let alone that the bad guys had guns and in real life would have easily shot Bruce many times. If they thought bringing in fine actors such as Michael Caine (Alfred) and Morgan Freeman (Lucias Fox, the "gadget specialist") would help, it didn't. They could have cast anyone as those characters and it wouldn't have mattered overall. Parts I enjoyed: Heath Ledger as the Joker was a whole other story in itself. Mr. Ledger owned that performance and to me stole the show. All of the scenes were filmed with amazing quality and skill. To bad the storyline was boring.