Let me begin by emphasize the importance of this movie and whether it sucks or not. When the trailer first came out, i was overcome with skepticism and told james that it's going to suck. Simply because the Batmobile sucks, and Bruce's and Batman's character in the trailer did not suit the comics.

As James is an avid batman fan, he didn't think so. In fact he was so sensitive about the Batman issue that he decided to make a bet on it. Finally after days of deciding what could be the most horrible thing we could do to each other, we came to the conclusion that

The loser would have to do anything the winner wishes - in a club.

I don't think anything would top that in terms of possible-entertainment-value. Now, onto the review.

Problems with Batman Begins *Spoilers*

1) The story in the beginning did not connect too well and his training seemed like I was watching a trailer. Though that was understandable because there was no way they could fit his entire training regime + mountain climbing + martial arts training into a 2 hour movie.

2) The batmobile is meant to be sleek and cool. Like
this. But instead they came up with
this.
I could never in my life call this cool. I'd call William Hung cool before I could bring myself to call this vehicle cool.

3) There was hardly any fighting in the fighting scenes. It's most obvious in the final fight in the train where the camera is moving around far too much to actually see a fight.

4) Katie Holmes is ugly and annoying. All that seems to spew from her mouth are philosophical and deep.

5) Two holes that didn't add up. 1) The scarecrow (doctor) turns up in the alley and attacks Katie Holmes on a horse and gets tasered in the face. Coincidence or complete randomness. 2) The boy who was heavily breathing in the panic fumes wasn't affected. Even when Batman came to save them he was calm and didn't see him as a morphed scary creature.

6) I figured out who the evil villain was, so the big twist hardly twisted anything at all.

Final outcome

With all the problems I stated, it's obvious what my final conclusion of the movie would be. *Insert major twist here*

The movie was awesome.

I spent a good half hour picking at the smallest problems I could find and if you've watched the movie, you'd understand that whatever i wrote above is irrelevant because you walked out of the cinema more than satisfied, as I did.

Batman did everything he was meant to do correctly (like in the comics) - stealthily, swift and cool....very cool. I mentioned above that there were hardly any fighting scenes, which is right because there isn't meant to be much fighting. Batman is supposed to come down from the ceiling and immobilize the person without him knowing what hit him.

Furthermore, his suit and utility belt has never looked cooler. When I first saw the belt, it looked like it was made out of some space-age material capable of launching multiple nuclear warheads from the buckle.
Seriously, check this shit out.
I wouldn't fight a midget wearing that suit. *quiver*

The movie was good at explaining how Bruce Wayne got all his cool gadgets and batcave without people finding out. The ending was great because it was quick and tied into the sequel with Batman's biggest villain, the Joker. Most importantly the acting was amazing. Liam Neeson, Michael Caine (wow), Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman and Christian Bale acted brilliantly.

After the movie was over, i had a huge urge to walk up to anyone and say in a deep coarse voice "I'm Batman" and somehow disappear before they could turn around. But shortly after the afterglow, I remembered the bet.

Undoubtedly, James is going to pick me the biggest, smelliest, oldest and most malformed woman he can pick out in a club and proceed to make me lose all my dignity....and possibly my ruin my chances for an erection forever.

On a final note, isn't this the coolest toy you've ever seen?