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Batman Begins (2005)
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6/08
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After three straight disasters for the Batman franchise, I thought Batman Begins would overturn the
injustices they had committed.
But guess what? This might be the worst modern Batman movie of all time.
For the fifth straight outing, the plot is
essentially the same only that more mumbo jumbo is spewed out. It's also redundantly boring and pointless that's without
logic or substance. Most of the dialogue is cringeworthy, soulless, wooden, pretentious, and hollow.
There's another version now of how Bruce Wayne's parents died which means the previous four films have been discarded.
I don't get the part of Bruce Wayne living in Mandarin China, Tibet, or wherever the fuck he was at. Why? It doesn't
make sense.
As for the acting, the cast displays no traces of human emotion. Looking at the face of Christian Bale, no matter how
many films I've seen him in, he's still a robot, and I can't believe that he gets paid to "act." On the other hand,
Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman sold themselves out, having admitted to it years later. Gary Oldman, the second
coming of Marlon Brando's school of phony acting, once again hams it up. Can't he be any more ridiculous? Luckily for him,
Katie Holmes outdoes him in the worst acting category.
Whenever a scene occurs, it rolls for five to ten seconds before cutting away to another point of
view and then going back to the previous shot; thus, the result is lost in translation. Some of the shots are so musty-looking
that I can't see what's going on. The exterior sets are bland, ugly, and lifeless while the interiors are sometimes extravagant.
The clothes worn by the characters when Bruce was a child are supposed to resemble the 30's, yet the city looks modern.
Now, fast forward twenty years later, the clothes are back to normal, yet the city still looks the same.
All in all, movie critic Rex Reed said it the best: "Batman Begins is for morons."