Maybe he was tired, which I can respect. I love Val usually. Hence, he's boring. The writing, which is new, is poor. The dialogue sounds clunky and forced.
Chicks dig the car.
And the music by Eliot Goldenthal is passable but not nearly up to the par presented by ingenius composer Danny Elfman for the first two Batmans. He even wipes out the older, more hummable theme and replaces it with something that's passable. The direction by Joel Schumacher is passable. He hardly creates as interesting a Gotham as the first two. And it's always night for some reason.