Dumb dumb Dumb dumb dumb dumb

Rating: 1/10 (21 November 2012)

Those drums and bloody music will they ever stop? Yet another corporate serving of Hollywood, dumb nastiness. A dead pan murdering of The Batman saga with no humour or comic relief. It has a patronising ending ripped off from any James Bond movie. Countdown bomb clock 1minute 30 seconds to go and they are still exchanging sloooow meaninful glances, Hortense. And The Iron Giant with IT ALL SPELLED OUT IN BIG WRITING for the less imaginative in the audience so they can scuttle back home sucking thumbs and gurgling happily. I don't expect anything cerebral from Batman flicks with absurd plot twists etc. Batman movies have had some depth in the characters that allowed you to involve. This had none despite all the 'deep emotional' speechifying. It would have benefited from sawing off about an hour of the interminable akshun sequences and very, very and honestly to God folks, fake cliff hangers. Dreadful directing, all a fine cast told to act in the 'Standard CSI Self Important Wooden' manner. Cain didn't. A generic habit of inserting deliberately sadistic violence in some American action films as a plot device fails every time. It means nothing adds nothing and fails to entertain, which is how I felt afterwards about the whole movie. Peckinpahs', The Wild Bunch will always be one of the greatest ever movies.