What is there to say that needs to be? If you like Batman, see it, by all means... The acting is great the cast is near perfect, with Jack Nicholson as the Joker and Michael Keaton as Batman, and other great people for the role. Jack is great...
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What is there to say that needs to be? If you like Batman, see it, by all means... The acting is great the cast is near perfect, with Jack Nicholson as the Joker and Michael Keaton as Batman, and other great people for the role. Jack is great because he is one of the best people to cast as a crazy guy (did you ever see The Shining?). But also, the unexpected master himself, Michael Keaton as Batman. Many people actually petitioned not to have him cast becuase they couldn't imagine him in the role as Batman; that's why he's so perfect! The idea of putting on that suit is not to look pretty, (sadly) but to hide his appearance, and boy, you would never expect it to be Bruce Wayne. All you need to do, is see for yourself.

I was walking in the DVD store one day, and I saw this and the other Batman films. I decided to begin with this since this is the first.
I knew these movies would be good since I love Batman. I watched it when I came back home, and it was...
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I was walking in the DVD store one day, and I saw this and the other Batman films. I decided to begin with this since this is the first.
I knew these movies would be good since I love Batman. I watched it when I came back home, and it was great! It had great action, and it was dark and suspenceful, just how I like it!
It's a really good film. You should see it!

sit back and enjoy this review of batman.

When I first saw this movie , I was around the age of 7. My mom rented the movie for me and so I sat down and watched. I don't recall much of ideas on the movie , but I knew I was didn't...
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sit back and enjoy this review of batman.

When I first saw this movie , I was around the age of 7. My mom rented the movie for me and so I sat down and watched. I don't recall much of ideas on the movie , but I knew I was didn't finish it and didn't liked it that much. Now we're 10 years later and since I bought the batman collection, I decided to watch it again and review it here in my blog. i'm gonna start with some background information on the movie. It was released in 1989 and was well recieved by critics and the audience. It had several award nominations and so you can say that the movie was a great succes. Tim Burton directed the movie. You may know him from other great movies like Edward Scissorhands , Sleepy hollow , sweeny todd and many more. That alone was for me a reason to watch the movie.

Now for the actors, lets start with the actor who plays Batman/Bruce Wayne. There were several actors who auditioned for the role of Batman, including Pierce Brosnan, Mel Gibson and Kevin Costner. But eventually Burton choose Micheal Keaton for the role of Batman. Keatons performance in this movie is really great, he has this kind of charisma and for me he is the second best Batman, after Christian Bale. For the role of the Joker, they chose Jack Nicholson. Nicholson is really really good as the Joker. His version of the joker is absolutely awesome. The character has this kind of crazy thing about him that you can't do anything else than love him. I also like the dark humor of the character.Then you have the female lead role, Vicky Vale , played by Kim Basinger. She does a pretty good job and it is a shame that she isn't brought back in the sequel.And last you have Robert Wuhl , who plays Knox. Personally, I didn't like the character of Knox, i see him as one of the minor bad things about the movie. Other actors are Micheal Gough as Alfred , Billy Dee Wiliams as Harvey Dent and Pat Hingle as Commissioner Gordon.

The story is one about revenge. The movie begins with two thiefs robbing a family in a dark back alley. They get their money and escape. One of the thiefs starts talking about a bat who fights crime. Shortly after that, Batman appears and teaches the thiefs a lesson. The introduction of batman is well done and looks nice. After that, you see that the maffia is bribing the police and we meet Jack Napier. He is sleeping with his wife's boss. As you can guess, Grissom , his boss, doesn't like that. So he sends Jack on a mission and later rats him out. In a struggle with Batman , he is wounded by Batman and falls into a crate of toxic waste. He survives, but is horribely scarred and he seeks revenge on the man who did that to him. Batman. He also has this plan to poison and kill all of Gotham City and he eventually falls in love with Vicky Vale , which is ofcourse not mutual. Vicky Vale and Knox are trying to make an article about Batman, which no one believes in. She meets the rich bachelor Bruce Wayne and eventually discovers that he is Batman. I won't tell more about the story, cause I don't want to spoil anything. But a minor thing that I noticed. I find that the movie is more about the Joker than about Batman. He is most of the time on the screen and that is just a minor thing that I didn't liked that much.

But overall this is a great movie and the dark tone makes this movie more a movie for adults.

Great movie. Tim Burton's Batman is a classic movie. It's been overshadowed now that 2008's The Dark Knight has come out, but I actually prefer Burton's Batman.

Burton's Batman retains that over-the-top comic book flavor. The world is...
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Great movie. Tim Burton's Batman is a classic movie. It's been overshadowed now that 2008's The Dark Knight has come out, but I actually prefer Burton's Batman.

Burton's Batman retains that over-the-top comic book flavor. The world is not realistic, outlandish things happen. But still it feels organic and follows the rules within its own universe.

The opening music is one of the all time great movie scores. It sets the tone for the dark, moody comic book masterpiece that is Batman.