Well, this afternoon i have been one of the lukiest men on earth because a friend of mine is a cinema critic and he invited me to a special release for the press of batman begins in my country, spain, Althought the movie will be released next friday. And man, five words: BEST COMIC BOOK MOVIE EVER. Forgive superman movies, forgive man spider movies, forvige x men movies, daredevil , the hulk, punisher, etc, and specially forgive the four previous batman movies, THIS IS THE DEFINITIVE BATMAN MOVIE. For me, the other four dont exists. I will try dont tell too much for the people to keep the amazing effect of the movie when you see it for first time. Lets begin with the review:
First image of the movie, the warner bros loge turning into bats , whoaoooo, i was totally exited when i see it.
The first hour of the movie is about Young Bruce Wayne life and his training and travels for the world, his relationshipe with the misterous henry ducard, his remember of his parents murder and his feel of guilty, he wants to do something and find justice , but he doesnt know how . Ducard trained him and teach him how to concentrate his fell of guilty and rage in one objetive, and how to controlls his fear and use it to scare his enemies. This part of the movie is essential to understand who Bruce Wayne is and why he becomes batman.
Second part of the movie, gotham city. That is the gotham city of the comics, forgive burton and shumacher cities, that is the definitive gotham city. A corrupted, realistic and dark city that looks like a hell itself. We see the bruce wayne as he is in the comics. A tall, handsome, muscular and arrogant and silly play boy who are all day in parties and try to gets all the women. And we see batman, best batman ever, serious, intimidating and creepy. The definitive batman. We see Falcone, scarecrow, alfred, jim gordon, batmovile, batcave, etc. That is the world of dc comics . A lot of action, a lot of good action scenes, batman doing martial arts, scarecrow creepy as hell, awsome scenes with batmovile, a fine love story with rachel ( katie holmes) and spectacular end. What a end. Absolutely wonderful. At the end of the movie, you have the feeling that you know who batman and bruce wayne is and what are his motivations and why this guy wears a bat costume and fights the crime every night.
The good points: 95% of them. CHRISTIAN BALE IS THE MAN. He is amazing as batman and even more amazing as Bruce Wayne, his voice, his look, his conversations with alfred, his eyes, his screen presence.he isnt playing batman, he is batman. He was as good as Chris Reeve as superman.
The supporting cast is amazing: katie holmes is very good, Cillian Murphy is totally creepy as scarecrow/professor crane, Oldman, Wilkinson, Hauer, Watanebe and Freeman are very good , but specially Michael Caine and Liam Neeson. Caine`s alfred is brillaint, as good as michael gough was, his relationship with bruce and his sense of humour is great. Neeson is great too, his misterious and powerful precense as ducard almost steals the show. Really, Bale, Caine and Neeson stealed the show, with Murphy in a close second.
Bad points: Batmovile design: it should have been a lot better, but it stils works better than i thought.
The references to the burton movies: i thought that it was a total re start of the series, so , some references to the burton movies pissed me off.
To resume it, Best batman movie and best comic boock movie ever. At the end of the screening, almost all the people were aplauding in the cinema, including myself and my friend. Go and see quickly. a 9'9 of 10.
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Last edited by bakerboy on Jun 13th, 2005 at 07:02 PM
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all the reviewing people are saying it's "two thumbs up" "the movie of the summer" " if your going to see one movie this summer make it this one"..and all that jazz. I'm sure it's at least an 9.3 out of ten if not more.
ITs one thing for the review people, But the general public??? I was reading about the review people saying Batman and Robin was a "Dizzleing" movie, But once it hit theaters, of couse it went down hill.
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For me, its a 9'9 film. And not only the best superhero movie, is one of the best ten movies in last 15 years. And all the people of the cinema loved it , because they aplaud when the movie ended.
__________________ The beatles, best group ever.
John Lennon, Musical genius of all time
Helen Mirren and Julie Christie , most lovely british actresses of all time.
"ITs one thing for the review people, But the general public??? I was reading about the review people saying Batman and Robin was a "Dizzleing" movie, But once it hit theaters, of couse it went down hill."
It can't have had that many good reviews though, since it's about 13% on Rotten Tomatoes.
This is currnetly at 86% and I predict it to go up.
As I said before Bakerboy,the fact that YOU loved it and even went so far as to saying you thought it was the best comicbook movie ever even better than Superman-which we have always agreed was the best comicbook film ever made.I have doubts that I will love it as well.I know Kitty like us,did not like any of the Batman movies either so hearing this from BOTH of you,that you BOTH loved it.I cant wait.I will be seeing it this weekend on saturday.I am so excited.I'll read your review later on after the weekend after I have seen it.Dont want any spoilers given to me.
Yeah, mr parker. It was incredible, because i think that superman was the best comic book film ever, as you think too, but this movie is so amazing that is even better than superman. Is an almost perfect movie, story, lines, performances,characters, direction, music,etc. Please, dont forget to post your review of the movie when you see it, and remember, you will love it.
__________________ The beatles, best group ever.
John Lennon, Musical genius of all time
Helen Mirren and Julie Christie , most lovely british actresses of all time.
It's absolutely amazing! As has been stated above, this is the 1 and only true Batman film. One of the best action movies ever!
Gotham city looks amazing, Christian Bale was born to be the bat, the scarecrow crazy gas angle was amazing, the surprise villain in the end was unexpected and awesome. The bat mobile looks like a Lamborghini on steroids!
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