<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/archives/522/batman-filmjul12" rel="attachment wp-att-523"><img class="size-full wp-image-523 alignleft" title="Batman-Film(Jul12)" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Batman-FilmJul12.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="200" /></a>We had some Tesco cinema vouchers that were going to run out at the end of the month so we decided to spend a very hot evening in the air-conditioned surrounds of the local multiplex.

It was too long in some places with quite a bit of sentimentality in the middle when this could have been cut out. The producer seemed to temporarily forget that Batman is an action hero and without the action there is no story. There was one section where Batman had been beaten and is dragged off with bare feet. There is a similarity with Jesus being dragged off to the cross. Later Batman manages to escape from a prison by climbing out of a hole and the symbolism to “rolling away the stone” is fairly obvious - so the super action hero is not a new story by any means.

I know the film is a complete invention and I tried hard to lose touch with reality, I honestly did, but when Batman gets out of his wonderful flying vehicle that could destroy anything in its path so that he can go hand to hand with someone who had already beaten him – no, sorry, it was an act of insanity and jarred with me.

Eventually, after two and half hours, all's well that ends well. The baddies are dead and the good guys live to fight another day. So what's new?

I cannot recommend the film but I'd watch it again when it reaches TV.