Film: Batman Begins

Directed by: Christopher Nolan

Year: 2005

Starring: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman

Reviewed by: The Zombieslayer

Batman is back! Or, well, this is before Batman became famous. I guess it's as if Batman started all over again. Comics do that, so I guess movies based on comic books are allowed to do that too.

I somewhat enjoyed it . The plot was captivating. The actors did a fair job. The director shot the fighting sequences too closely so one couldn't tell what was going on. Blah blah. Same as the rest of the reviews you've read.

I did like the main bad guy. I guess his name was the Scarecrow. That was clever. Instead of having some tough guy, they took a regular, almost nerdy, guy with a soft face and effeminate lips who had a large supply of hallucinogenic gas. With the gas, he puts on a cheap five dollar mask and the victim gets paralyzed into a state of phobic psychosis. Very clever. I'd rather have that than a typical bad guy with super powers, which of course always ends with a drawn out fight scene.

What I did notice though is that Katie Holmes got a big dose of that hallucinogenic drug. Ah, so that's why she married Tom Cruise. Now she has a valid excuse. She's not in the right mind.

Okay, cool. I forgive you, Katie Holmes. Instead of chastising her for marrying Tom Cruise, we need to find a way to rid those drugs from her nervous system. When she gets them out of her system, she'll come to her senses.

I enjoyed the movie while watching it. However, I won't remember it five years from now. For a comic book movie, you could do much worse. It was hundreds of times better than Daredevil which I'm still trying to block out of my memories. That's why I wish I was a wizard. I'd just put that memory of Daredevil into a pensieve and accidently lose it. If someone else finds that pensieve, they could have the two hours wasted out of my life.

This was the best Batman since Tim Burton's Batman II, which isn't really saying much. It wasn't as good as the first X-Men or the first Spiderman though.

Two major flaws that kept me from giving it more stars:

1) Horrible, absolutely horrible fighting sequences. They're shot too close, so I can't tell what's going on. Tim Burton had good fighting sequences.

2) That Batmobile is the most ugly vehicle I've ever seen. The Batmobile is supposed to be cool. Remember Tim Burton's Batmans? Those were cool Batmobiles. This one wasn't.

Nolan, you're going to have to do better than this if you want to get out of Tim Burton's shadow.

Six dead zombies.

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