Review #040: Batman.
Cast
Michael Keaton (Batman/Bruce Wayne), Jack Nicholson (The Joker), Kim Basinger (Vicki Vale), Michael Gough (Alfred Pennyworth), Tracey Walter (Henchmen Bob), Robert Wuhl (Alexander Knox), Jack Palance (Carl Grissom), and Billy Dee Williams (Harvey Dent) Directed by Tim Burton.
Review
Prologue: So I was searching for something to watch, when I heard the Batman theme done by Danny Elfman, which signaled that this movie was starting. I immediately turned it to AMC, as I wanted to see how it was...
Long story short, I liked it. Jack Nicholson as the Joker was great. He steals the show as he's crazy and surprisingly funny. Keaton is a great Batman who doesn't need a sore throat infection to be threatening. Basinger is okay, even if she really isn't developed. I liked it's scenery and its action. The Batmobile looks really great, better then the Tumbler in the new one, which looks like...A tank that was dipped with oddities. There were a few things that I noticed that sound off. For one, Jack Napier (Joker) kills Bruce's parents, instead of Joe Chill. Why I know that is unclear, but I suppose even someone as uneducated on comic books like me can know a thing or two about this stuff. Another is more of a minor thing, but the bat wing scene where Batman misses the Joker wide, even though he's clearly right in front of him, and then the Joker brings a long gun and shoots him in one shot. But anyway, the film is stylish, it has good acting from the cast, and it's a good film, that would inspire three sequels not as good as the first, and a reboot trilogy (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises), with this still being a good candidate for best Batman movie.
Overall, I give it 10 out of 10 stars.
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