Thursday, June 23, 2005

Batman Begins

**1/2 Stars

Batman Begins is a decent movie but it is no where near its expectations.

Batman starts off literally from the start. It shows Bruce Wayne as a child when his parents are killed. Years and years go by and Bruce still hasn't recovered from his tragic loss. He is in a prison when he meets Henri Ducard (Nielson). Ducard can apparently get him out of prison and master the art of patience, swordplay, and Kung Fu. That's right folks, Batman knows Kung Fu. What does Kung Fu have to do with Batman? Who knows and who cares.
In order to enter this very prestigious League of Shadows. Bruce must kill a man. He refuses, and decides to escape. He is attacked but soon free.

After escaping and pointlessly saving Ducard's life, Bruce enters Gotham City again and decides to bring justice to the City. This is where Batman comes in.

Many people wonder what Bruce Wayne does in his spare time. To cover his identity, he creates himself as a playboy and gets drunk every night. This upsets old child friend Rachel Dawes (Katie Holmes) who is now an assistant D.A.
Michael Caine is his Butler, Morgan Freeman is his low level technician working in the basement of Wayne Enterprises (every scene with Freeman and Bale feels like a knockoff of James Bond and Q) and Tom Wilkinson is the city's crime boss. The cast (minus an extremely unsatisfying Katie Holmes) is great. They have a lot of fun with this movie. Nolan uses his same style as Memento here, flashing back and forth from past to present. The movie has style and it's fun but it's not as much as I had wished for. The camera is to close in every fight scene. That worked in movies like The Bourne Supremacy. Here, Batman takes them down so fast, we just stop caring about he does.
Batman Begins is just another revenge film. Although Batman does not like to kill, it still felt like a pissed off man because someone killed his parents.
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