BATMAN BEGINS — Page 4

In general I pretty much liked the movie. I enjoyed the different take on the character. The performances were all good. I didn't find Bale as amazing as some people said and I didn't find Holmes as incongruant as some people said. I think it might have made more sense to have the Holmes character be Harvey Dent instead and set up that character for the next movies. They probably would have had to get rid of the kiss at the end, but if not, that would have added another interesting element.

I think maybe they marginalized the villains too much. It was pretty much like. Okay, this villian, is taken out, so is the next one, and the movies almost over so you pretty much know what's going to happen with the final villain. I don't really see why it was necessary for Batman to get on the train with Neeson at the end except perhaps for closure.

No one really talks the way the characters do in real life the way they do in the movie, but that didn't really bother me because I just put myself in the world of the movie. Some of the quips seemed like afterthoughts, but none were too bad.

I sort of wanted some sort of dilemma to occur to totally turn Batman's ideas about justice and crime on it's head, but maybe they'll do something like that in the next movies.

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Updated On: 7/3/05 at 12:50 PM

No one has mentioned the nicely understated performance of Gary Oldman as officer Jim Gordon - the future Commissioner Gordon. I hope he'll be back for the sequels.

Just got around to seeing the movie.

Superb.

The last scene with Gordon and Batman was sheer perfection.

I tend to normally think comics are best served in the pages of the comics but, in this case, there hasn't been a Batman comic that can touch this since 'Year One.' (And this was a better super hero story than 'Year One,' which was really crime fiction and was really a Gordon story, more than a Batman story.)

*joins the Oldman appreciation society*