Thursday, March 13, 2008

Movie Review: Batman Begins

I have never, EVER seen a Batman movie before. But I have seen a lot of action movies before. So I'll run off that.
This movie had one of the s...l...o...w...e...s...t openings I have ever seen. Action was hardly seen until halfway through.
But Mat, there's more to a movie than action sequences.
I'm getting to that. The story through the first half is incredibly hard to follow, Bruce is a kid, now he's in jail, now he's a kid again, now he's in jail again, now he's a kid, oh no! Now his parents were shot! Let's talk to some weird guy and climb a mountain and learn ninjitsu.
But don't lose faith in this movie! Some of the plot holes are mended in the end.
I don't know about other films, but I don't think this movie is very true to any other Batman comic, campy 60's show, or movie. The Batmobile looks nothing like (I think) it should, Wayne Manor is burned to the ground, Bruce Wayne just stole his gadgets from work, and the entire opening is probably not how it happened in the comics. But I don't know.
This movie was...watchable (barely), and a Batman fan may enjoy it more than me. I have to give this one a two out of six.

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