Product: Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
Rating: 2.0
forgettable
What an overrated flick! Batman, as a movie, has been done to death. I found this version to be pretty boring.The beginning of this movie, when Bruce Wayne is doing some martial arts training, was pretty interesting. He develops a mentor relationship with the guy that ultimately becomes his foe.Once he becomes "Batman", the movie was pretty boring. While I appreciated the attempt at making the story less campy and more gritty, the concept has been so overdone that I think it is not possible to go any further with the character.Tim Burton's first Batman was also dark and gritty. Omit the over the top Joker bit and he also made a similar dark, moody Batman.A problem is that if the premise of the movie was to get away from fantasy and making it more believable, the movie was nontheless... not believable. Especially the "Sandman" character. A wormy, wussy, wimpy shrink becomes tough as nails once he has his outfit on? Come on!Katie Holmes is simply not a big screen actress. She has no charisma, no star power, and I felt that she was a non believable distraction to the film. She's merely a secondary TV actress.Lastly, I did not like the ending. It seemed anti-climactic.This franchise should go in either the direction of making a film purely from the "Bruce Wayne" point of view and omit any fantasy aspect or emulate Raimi's "Spiderman" or the first X-Men since those films have very effectively captured the magic of the superhero film.If you compare this to the newest Superman film, while that film was flawed also, at least it employed tremendous special effects, and most importantly, examined Clark Kent's desire for love. It employed a fresh, contemporary attitude.Batman Begins seemed like a rehash of the Burton movie with the same formula yet different costumes, actors and film crew.This was a gallant attempt but I feel that Batman has been exhausted. In the last 20 years there have been too many batman movies.