Batman Begins

Ok I'm writing this and there will me some minor spoilers here. So if you want to go into the theater like I did with minimal prior knowledge stop reading right now. Go on. Stop reading. Why are you still reading this there is nothing important left in this paragraph.

Now Batman Begins was an impressive movie. I liked it a lot better than Batman, and I thought Batman was good. One thing that may hurt the movie is that in its trailers it shows the scarecrow as the main villian. Honestly I think the scarecrow has always been a little hoaky, he a weenie with parlor tricks. The equivalent of Mysterio of the Marvel universe. For those who know a little about Batman this might be off putting. The redemption of the movie is that Scarecrow is a red herring. You'll know who the real villian is before you even see Scarecrow, at least if you're farmilar with the Batman universe.

Christian Bale does and excellent job playing Bruce Wayne, and I enjoyed the aspect of seeing him define the image. He does change his voice as Batman but it just doesn't sound right, it sounds too gravely and gritty. The voice sounds forced.

The action was good, though the close combat shots were just a series of snippets of a punch cut, kick cut, throw cut ect. I guess it's the new way of showing action, to me it just looks like poor choreography. Showing an entire sequence would be much better, but when you have bad guys dressed in black, your hero dressed in black fighting on dark streets at night for some reason it's kind of hard to follow what's happening when you're only showing 30 one second clips of action. Be hard on your actors, take a cue from the matrix. Make them bruised battered and work for that 5-10 million dollars you're going to pay them.

Honestly I loved the movie, and will probably get the DVD, but if I praised it all then I'd give away too many spoilers. Watch the movie. The previews don't do it justice, but if they did they'd give too much away and spoil some of the fun.