The rotten reviews for Batman Begins (2005) are kind of surreal to read

[CyberCubed]

Batman Begins only has an 84% on rotten, so out of curiosity I looked at the rotten reviews just to see what critics disliked about it and I forgot how divisive this movie was for some in 2005:

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bat...e=&sort=rotten

Some quotes from different reviewers:

Batman Begins isn't a terrible film, it simply isn't that good. Overly long, vaguely goofy in places, and straining for gravity and dignity, it's the dignity part that is hard

All the good intentions in the world don't change the fact that the new Batman is a bit of a bore.

Nolan fails to bring grace or sweep to the action; he stages and edits it too tightly. It's punchy, all right, but not pleasurable.

The class dynamics of Batman Begins are just insufferable. Thank heavens we have our incorruptable masked moneybags to keep the criminal poor in line.

Batman Begins 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.

June 15, 2005
Is it too much to ask that the action sequences not be monotonously, narcotizingly dull?

The action sequences feel like generic studio product, frantically and confusingly edited, and the lengthy Batmobile chase scene feels like a good opportunity to take the kids to the bat-room.

June 14, 2005
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.

The movie slowly moves away from being an engaging film about people and starts to fit itself into the mold of every other dumb action movie you've ever seen.

After much unnecessary padding and delay, the film settles down to...a thinly veiled and thoroughly trivialized reworking of 9/11.

Batman Begins is an utterly conventional, conformist work, respectful of order and wealth, unable or unwilling to challenge any of contemporary society's taboos. Worse than that, its grim pomposity and self-seriousness invite only laughter.

Batman Begins leaks existential phoniness from the first frame.

Critics were hating on WB movies even 15 years ago.

Kind of surreal to read now when Batman Begins is considered one of the best Batman films.