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I ask you God, what have we done to deserve this?, 8 December 2003
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eamon-hennedy (eamon.hennedy@talk21.com) from Co Down, Northern Ireland
This is hands down the worst film ever made in the history of the existence
of the universe. There have been some bad films made but this is a travesty.
It is hard to believe that money was spent to make this. It could have been
used on something else (charity I suppose). I was 12 when I went to see this
and it broke my heart. Batman was my favorite comic book and character when
I was a kid and this film broke my spirit. The excellence of the Tim
Burton/Michael Keaton films are long gone. The dark emotional center and
development of the hero and the villains is sidelined for action sequences,
action sequences and some more action sequences, some of them incorporating
the worst CGI and model work ever seen on film.
The casting itself had to the potential to make a good film. George Clooney
could have made a great Batman (square jawed, popular with the ladies), the
only thing going against him being that can be too laid back (maybe with a
better script he could do the darker material). Uma Thurman is perfect for
Poison Ivy. She is a good looking yet quirky actress, but you wouldn't know
it by the emphasis on camp context and innuendo in this film. Arnie is maybe
a little miscast as Mr Freeze, but he does well getting a chance to use some
'great' puns, but someone who can come across as more evil would have been
better. Then there is Chris O'Donnell and Alicia Silverstone as Robin and
Batgirl. Let's just say more charisma can come from a line of fridge
freezers with nothing in them. The only decent performance comes from
Michael Gough as Alfred, only one of two actors to have appeared in all four
films. His performance is wonderful in this otherwise mess of a
film.
The blame for this disaster can be laid at the hands of Joel Schumacher. His
direction misplaced and his intentions misguided. He may have redeemed
himself with Phone Booth, but he will always be the man who destroyed Batman
in my eyes.
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