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Plenty in store, but nothing to bat for
Batman Begins (English)
Cast: Christian Bale,
Katie Holmes
Director: Christopher Nolan
Tim Burton's Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992) were defining movies for their nightmarish set design, flamboyant villains (Jack Nicholson, Danny De Vito, Michelle Pfeiffer) and rocking music by the artiste formerly known as Prince.
Then the franchise descended into silly camp with Joel Schumacher's Batman and Robin and Batman Forever.
After eight years of silence, comes Batman Begins, which follows the summer blockbuster trend of pretentious prequels, providing back stories of well-loved icons.
Like Revenge of the Sith, Batman Begins traces the life defining moments that changes one from trendy Jedi Knight to the dude in a black cloak and helmet and turns another from callow billionaire to masked vigilante. And there is enough solemn psychobabble to keep all coffee table psychologists amused. Christopher Nolan, the bright young British director who gave us the twisty thriller Memento, seems slightly out of his depth in this solemn, sombre tale which seems to have totally forgotten its comic book roots.
The ending hinting at the sequel was just too much and now we have news that Luke Skywalker a.k.a Mark Hamill is being wooed to play the Joker in the sequel - more in breeding in the superhero clan.
The back story here tells of young Bruce Wayne seeing his parents die, sulking, quitting Princeton, wishing to study criminal behaviour, dashing off to distant far-Eastern gaol where he meets some shadowy cult, returning to Gotham, becoming Batman... and so on and so forth. Christian Bale makes for an okay Batman while Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes; the childhood friend is trés weak.
If villains define the batman movies, this one suffers from a problem of plenty.
Mini Anthikad-Chhibber
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