My Batman Review (DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT AND WANT TO BE SUPRISED)
THIS IS FULL OF SPOILERS, SO IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT AND WANT TO BE SUPRISED READ NO FURTHER!!!
Sorry, I don't know how to do that cut thing with a link to another page!!
Anyway, my review:
Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, well done. They all played their characters very well and I was impressed overall.
Maggie Gyllenhall, not impressed. She looks too old and was just not very interesting. She was a less attractive, boring version of Katie Holmes. And a downgrade from Katie Holmes isn't something to be very proud of. Good for her for getting her name in this movie, the greatness of the movie and other actors will carry her, but overall I thought she was lacking. I don't think it was the character or how she portrayed it, I think it was just her. Blah.
Heath Ledger. Heath Ledger. Heath Ledger. WOW. He was insane, he was perfect. He really did become the character. Used to seeing him in romantic drama maybe a little bad boy roles, he owned Villan. He was full on makeup the whole time, and doing the Joker voice, I spent the whole movie "Is that Heath? Yes it is. Am I sure? Wow". They say he's getting the Oscar buzz cause he passed, but I think it would be at travesty for him not to win it alive, passed, or anything else.
I thought there was alot of filler at the beginning, I felt the Chinese businessman was unnecessary, I felt they took awhile to really dive into the Joker, he was an opening scene and then quited down for awhile while they spun Mobsters and all, and then came back.
My biggest upset of the movie? Two-Face. I love me some Aaron Eckhart. So they spent the last 1/2 to hour of the movie developing Two-Face, how he became what he is, his reasoning, ect. just to have him kill two police, threaten a family and get killed? No, no. Two-Face is a major Villan in his own right, he DESERVED his own movie, not just a blip in Heath Ledger's masterpiece. When they started explaining Two-Face and developing him, I was sure it was to lead him into being the Villan in the next movie. Then again, at the end you saw him fallen, laying there and then Harvey Dent's funeral. What I hope that meant was the "death" of Dent, and the birth of Two-Face, even though they leave the movie with you believing he is dead. I want it to be the moral death of Dent, how the city will believe he died, so that Two-Face can grow to his own and not be linked to the "good guy he once was". That is my hope.
Also, by developing Two-Face, they didn't really complete The Joker. Sure SWAT got him, but he's escaped many times before. We didn't see him die, we didn't see how he ended. We also didn't see what ever happened with the boat people, or the rigged bridges and tunnels. I would have liked to see a two minute scan over of the city with everyone sighing relief and everything going to be okay.
The Joker didn't have much developing, he was just a bad guy. They spent so much time developing Two-Face to not use him, they probably should have used that 1/2 hour at the beginning of the movie developing The Joker more maybe?
Oh well.
Overall, loved it. Maybe I'm too critical.
B+
Sorry, I don't know how to do that cut thing with a link to another page!!
Anyway, my review:
Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, well done. They all played their characters very well and I was impressed overall.
Maggie Gyllenhall, not impressed. She looks too old and was just not very interesting. She was a less attractive, boring version of Katie Holmes. And a downgrade from Katie Holmes isn't something to be very proud of. Good for her for getting her name in this movie, the greatness of the movie and other actors will carry her, but overall I thought she was lacking. I don't think it was the character or how she portrayed it, I think it was just her. Blah.
Heath Ledger. Heath Ledger. Heath Ledger. WOW. He was insane, he was perfect. He really did become the character. Used to seeing him in romantic drama maybe a little bad boy roles, he owned Villan. He was full on makeup the whole time, and doing the Joker voice, I spent the whole movie "Is that Heath? Yes it is. Am I sure? Wow". They say he's getting the Oscar buzz cause he passed, but I think it would be at travesty for him not to win it alive, passed, or anything else.
I thought there was alot of filler at the beginning, I felt the Chinese businessman was unnecessary, I felt they took awhile to really dive into the Joker, he was an opening scene and then quited down for awhile while they spun Mobsters and all, and then came back.
My biggest upset of the movie? Two-Face. I love me some Aaron Eckhart. So they spent the last 1/2 to hour of the movie developing Two-Face, how he became what he is, his reasoning, ect. just to have him kill two police, threaten a family and get killed? No, no. Two-Face is a major Villan in his own right, he DESERVED his own movie, not just a blip in Heath Ledger's masterpiece. When they started explaining Two-Face and developing him, I was sure it was to lead him into being the Villan in the next movie. Then again, at the end you saw him fallen, laying there and then Harvey Dent's funeral. What I hope that meant was the "death" of Dent, and the birth of Two-Face, even though they leave the movie with you believing he is dead. I want it to be the moral death of Dent, how the city will believe he died, so that Two-Face can grow to his own and not be linked to the "good guy he once was". That is my hope.
Also, by developing Two-Face, they didn't really complete The Joker. Sure SWAT got him, but he's escaped many times before. We didn't see him die, we didn't see how he ended. We also didn't see what ever happened with the boat people, or the rigged bridges and tunnels. I would have liked to see a two minute scan over of the city with everyone sighing relief and everything going to be okay.
The Joker didn't have much developing, he was just a bad guy. They spent so much time developing Two-Face to not use him, they probably should have used that 1/2 hour at the beginning of the movie developing The Joker more maybe?
Oh well.
Overall, loved it. Maybe I'm too critical.
B+