Dawn of the Geeks

Excellent movie. I actually saw the ending twice. Once after we walked out of “High Tension” the worst movie ever and once when we went to see it from start to finish. There isn’t a whole lot of fighting in this movie. It’s more about character development. How Batman came about. Which was the point of the movie. But it had enough car chases and fight scenes to keep things interesting.

The Katie Holmes character, an obviously liberal District Attorney, couldn’t tell the difference between justice and revenge. The main villian didn’t know what justice was either and leads a secret cult who has self elected themselves to control the evil population. They claim responsibility for burning Rome, etc. So we’ve got good guys who don’t know what Justice is and bad guys who don’t know what Justice is. No wonder they need Batman, who seems to have his head on straight about what Justice is. And I think that’s pretty much the point of superheros. We have the extreme left that’s so morally dead they don’t know what to do with the evil people (or simply can’t do anything about them) and the extreme right that can’t be anything but evil and so we introduce a superhero to take care of what needs to be taken care of.