I can't quite put my finger on why this film doesn't work. It might be the script which despite a few good lines is pretty unadventurous and seems to come straight from the 'How to write comic book movies handbook'. It's dull, it plods along and it takes far too long to get going.

The acting is fine although someone should have told Christian Bale that his 'Tony Soprano' accent for Batman doesn't work.

All in all your just left with a feeling of 'So what?', after seeing it. If you've seen the other Batman movies and Spider man or even X-Men then there is nothing new here. It's all the same stuff.

Maybe in the hands of a decent director like Peter Jackson the film would have turned out good. As it is, it's just a big pile of nothing.