Product: Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
Rating: 1.0
Laughbly bad, racist film
Boy, am I ever glad I saw this film without paying for it... I think I would have felt ripped off if I did. It was almost laughable the extent to which the film went to insult Asians. First, it begins with a young Bruce Wayne in a Chinese prison camp, fighting off about a dozen attackers. He does so easily, because he is a mighty white man, of course. Yet, the Asian guards are even wary of him. He gets out of jail after a debonaire older white man visits him, and tells him to visit a remote Asian monastery. On the way up to the monastery, he passes through a village -- where everyone he encounters happens to speak English in that funny little Asian way. The monastery is ostensibly a ninja school, run by an old mystical Asian man. Yet, none of the "ninjas" are Asian! They're black, they're white, they're everything but Asian! The debonaire white man who visited him earlier turns out to be his trainer, and they forge a bond. Bruce soon fights the Asian "master" of the school, and wins. Later, Bruce finds out that Asian "master" was a dupe, and the real ninja master was that debonaire white man. So how improbable is that? A ninja school run by a white man, out of a remote monastery in Asia. Hollywood cuts out all the Asians altogether. They don't count, in the matrix of Hollywood, or in this film. They're just punching bags for the mighty white man. Oh yeah -- and the film was just so boring, overly long, and the fight scenes more than a little pathetic, a bunch of choppy shots.