Batman Begins
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: June 15, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
Positive:
30
Mixed:
11
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Nolan and his co-screenwriter David Goyer can only press the big buttons so hard—it's still an old-school superhero summer movie, the plotting tortuous, the characters relegated to one-scene-one-emotion simplicity, the digitized action a never ending club mix of chases and mano a manos. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The result is handsome and logical, but missing the spark that would make it thrilling. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Ken Tucker
Begins, at two-hours-plus, is a nonstarter. Read full review
50
The New YorkerDavid Denby
The young Welsh-born actor Christian Bale is a serious fellow, but the most interesting thing about him--a glinting sense of superiority--gets erased by the dull earnestness of the screenplay, and the filmmakers haven't developed an adequate villain for him to go up against. Read full review
50
TimeRichard Schickel
Nolan's effort is not dishonorable, but what it needs, and doesn't have, is a Joker in the deck--some antic human antimatter to give it the giddy lift of perversity that a bunch of impersonal explosions, no matter how well managed, can't supply. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Batman Begins is obvious from the get-go - and almost no fun. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
A good as the performances are, and as dutiful as Nolan has been in preserving the Kane legacy in Batman Begins, there's something joyless about the enterprise. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
There are strong turns by Michael Caine as Alfred the butler and Tom Wilkinson as a ruthless crime boss. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Delivers enough action to please Saturday-night crowds, if not the surreal wit that made the first two "Batman" movies, directed by Tim Burton, so entertaining. Read full review
40
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Needs much more energy and kinetic flow -- less dolor and more dolomite. Read full review
40
Dallas ObserverRobert Wilonsky
Even if there were a great movie here, it would have been undermined by two lead actors who are barely even there, asked to deliver lines they can't handle: Bale, playing the Batman with clipped wings, and Katie Holmes as an assistant district attorney who doesn't have the gravitas to pass as an intern. Come back, Alicia Silverstone; all is forgiven. Read full review
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