Product: Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
Rating: 1.0
Officially Destroyed Batman For Me
I hated this movie. Its not fleshed out, its just plain terrible. Although I still fully believe that Val Kilmer was the worst Batman, Christian Bale is the second worst. He whisper acts. Also he seems more like a actor than Bruce Wayne. He plays both with such a dullness about him, almost as if he does not really care. The story is about a bunch of mumbo-jumbo about finding the path of justice and blah blah blah. We are talking about a Batman FRANCHISE, not a Shakespearian Play. This is just a summer blockbuster. The morals are what barney should have taught you. This movie (not film) does not need to be o-so-moral or even o-so-serious. It should at least have a little fun. To me the movie is just a male version of Elektra. It has the same bad editing, the same "flashback to my tragic childhood" cut scenes, the same "I can take on 15 people at the same time because I'm just that good" action, but most of all, it has the same "I'm going to fool people into thinking that melodrama is what makes movie good" wishful thinking. The movie tests my patience and tries to treat me like a idiot. It was just a big pile of dung. Bruce Wayne has never been such a complete moron with zero common sense. One of the worst parts is that the movie contradicts itself. For example: Bruce Wayne's mentor tells him in one scene that his father is to blame for his own death because even though he has no skill he never acted to save himself and that its not strength that is needed for survival but the ability to try. In the very next scene the same guy says that Bruce is so much stronger than his father and that's why he is a survivor. That really makes no sense. Another example is how Bruce wont kill anyone because its against his moral code but literally 5 seconds later he kills a whole building full of people without blinking. The only voice of reason in this movie is not Alfred, but Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes. She keeps trying to tell people what they literally need to hear (especially Bruce), but nobody ever pays any attention to her and instead just gets all bent out of shape by what she has to say. Also, the batmobile was the worst ever! It was like a pancake shaped, junkyard made, jeep with a roof. It was short and stubby. It drove like a pogo stick. It was so ugly. It seemed so redneck to me. It was like a mini monster truck and I fully expected Joe Dirt to jump out with a beer in one hand and a package of cheewing tabacoo in the other. I loved the first 2 batman's and even Forever and Batman & Robin were silly campy fun, but now I probably will never see a batman movie ever again.