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<blockquote data-quote="ethnosax" data-source="post: 2372935" data-attributes="member: 26799">Better than most comic book movies? Sure. Nice prologue to TDK? Yep. But as a movie on its own? I don't think it's particularly remarkable. A lot of it feels like people reading a clunky script, which keeps me from fully losing myself in the story. Also, Nolan was clearly still figuring out how to apply his style within an action movie framework. The tone of the movie shifts so wildly between &quot;complex moral questions&quot; and &quot;goofy, ridiculous action sequence,&quot; it's uneven. I want to really get involved in the &quot;complex moral questions&quot; aspect, but then the action sequences take away all that momentum. It's too timid to just be a really dark Dark Knight story. That's an area where it was good for the time, because it moved Batman movies in the right direction, but now it doesn't hold up as well.One more criticism: Nolan wanted to make a grounded, believable Batman story. But there are some details that are totally unbelievable. For example, a character buys falafel from a street vendor and then walks around eating it outside in the pouring rain. Who does that? <img src="/community/images/smilies/wink.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="ethnosax, post: 2372935, member: 26799"] Better than most comic book movies? Sure. Nice prologue to [I]TDK[/I]? Yep. But as a movie on its own? I don't think it's particularly remarkable. A lot of it feels like people reading a clunky script, which keeps me from fully losing myself in the story. Also, Nolan was clearly still figuring out how to apply his style within an action movie framework. The tone of the movie shifts so wildly between "complex moral questions" and "goofy, ridiculous action sequence," it's uneven. I want to really get involved in the "complex moral questions" aspect, but then the action sequences take away all that momentum. It's too timid to just be a really dark Dark Knight story. That's an area where it was good for the time, because it moved Batman movies in the right direction, but now it doesn't hold up as well. One more criticism: Nolan wanted to make a grounded, believable Batman story. But there are some details that are totally unbelievable. For example, a character buys falafel from a street vendor and then walks around eating it outside in the pouring rain. Who does that? ;) [/QUOTE]

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