Product: Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
Rating: 1.0
not quite
I suppose producers could not leave Batman alone in the course of the current revival of every possible cartoon figure, even if the last filmed series had already exploited most of the possibilities with one peak, the beautiful "Batman returns" with the superb Michelle Pfeiffer as the deadliest and most convincing Catwoman ever.So, to find something new, we have here a "let's go back to the beginnings", hark! hark! such a novelty this is, trying to explore what was purposefully left unsaid by the creators of the character.There is the usual sticky story of the poor soul wronged by men and fate who after a long wandering in the dark comes to know his real self, hark hark in the far east, among kung fu teachers.There is the usual town corrupted to the core, where all people are desperate or desperately evil but where a group of righteous souls still works for the greater good (taking an airplane to some more reasonable resort?)Ethics are trite and commonplace, completely uninteresting, so is character development and interaction.Christian Bale is as intense as parmesan and so is Katie Holmes. Side characters are fairly good, each up to the not much required trying to give sense to the senseless lines they are given.Situations and atmosphere are convincingly gloom and desolate; this film can be seen but only if you turn off your critical self.