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Movie Overview
Cast
Michael Keaton
Jack Nicholson
Kim Basinger
Director
Tim Burton
MPAA Rating
PG-13
Batman (1989)
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OFCS Rating: 64% Fresh
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2.5/4
"...
Batman
hasn't gone totally stale."
Film Freak Central
Bill Chambers
A-
"The element of surprise appears in every frame of this motion picture, creating a rich sense of joy and mystery that seems to befuddle Burton and his primitive instincts."
BrianOrndorf.com
Brian Orndorf
3.5/4
"...a success for several reasons, but most of the credit goes to director Tim Burton's brilliant visual interpretation of a dark, ominous comic book."
Cinemaphile.org
David Keyes
3/4
"Was it worth the wait? Actually, yes."
rec.arts.movies.reviews
David N. Butterworth
7/10
"[It] provides two hours of more than solid entertainment."
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Dragan Antulov
2.5/4
"There are a lot of things wrong with Batman, but it still makes for decent entertainment in the fine tradition of the typical low-intelligence summer movie."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
4/4
"Tim Burton's
Batman
manages to avoid all the potholes that the Batman story might have strewn in the way of an unwary filmmaker and he manages to avoid them all with aplomb."
Sci-Fi Movie Page
James O'Ehley
1/5
"Tim Burton is a genius when it comes to set design and atmosphere, but he can't film an action sequence to save his life."
Netflix
James Rocchi
5/10
"Wow. I can't believe how little I enjoyed about this movie after all of these years of NOT having seen it."
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
JoBlo
8/10
"...the yardstick by which all subsequent
Batman
movies are measured."
DVDTown.com
John J. Puccio
"I guess I did not expect better, but I had hoped for it nonetheless."
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Mark R. Leeper
"A hollow void of underdeveloped style and half-hearted execution."
Projection Booth
Rob Humanick
3.5/4
"Dark, eerie, mean spirited, I love it"
sbs.is
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
C
"The story is a mess… Scenes and lines of dialogue make no sense… Keaton makes hardly any impression in the role, in or out of the mask."
Decent Films Guide
Steven D. Greydanus
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