First of all there seemed to be two films. The Black Comedy and Smallville style costume free superhero film that was advertised, and this miserablist Art House thing that we ended up watching. Obviously the media decided that if they advertised it as seen no one would have gone to see it and they would never have recovered the SFX costs of the fantasy sequences. All the cast turned in stellar performances,however which made this even more annoying. You couldn't fault what they did with the dire script and its banal dialogue. Hollywood still doesn't know how use profanity, so why bother ? The eight uses of the word 'balls' was cringe making and made me long for Eddie Murphy or Chris Rock before they lost theirs. Perhaps the redundant use of this word was a comment on the film and it was a load of them after all ? The best thing in it was the use of Batman's modulated voice as his Harvey like alter ego. But then they had to ruin it by making him a solid hallucination and showing us some chickenman joke figure. We never saw Harvey.....better film. The long continuous shots were done better in Rope and had better joins to hide the fact that in places they weren't continuous. Steadycam has already been done to death and merely made you nauseous. That bloody drummer - he was annoying from the credits onward. When he appeared for real (twice) why did no one tell him to Shut the f*** up ? I kept waiting for this to get better - it didn't. The film should have ended when he shot himself. But you could tell they'd added another 10 minutes on the end for the 'ambiguous ending'. There was no need for this. Also, even Kevin Spacey in the weird KPAC did the alien thing better !
