What a terrible film

I'm sorry, but this just wasn't very good on so many levels. I understand and respect what the director was trying to do, but I just didn't like it.

Bad acting from the Theif and all of the females, bad writing, bad editing (in terms of both pacing, shot selection and bad chroma key work). It's about 25 minutes too long. It's full of poorly written monolouges and that's asside from the crappy story, which actually has some promise at first.

As a Batman fan, I hate all of the little things that are just wrong, like the aparatus that holds Batman looks like my grandmother could pull it down. I don't like the way Batman was portrayed. It seems like the director actually hates the character of Batman and doesn't understand what the character is really about at its' fundamental roots.

I love the idea of Batman at odds with a normal guy that was wrongly convicted, but at the same time one of the theme's of Batman was that in the end it's your own personal choices that make you the man you are. The Thief and Batman were dealt similar cards in the game of life. Batman tries to use his misfortunes as motivation to help others. The Theif on the other hand is one of those "woe is me" types who blames society and everything else on his problems instead of looking the mirror and saying "I've had some bad things happen to me but I should use it to a positive." I'm totally sure that he was "forced" into becoming a heroine addict in prison and he couldn't get a job cause he was an ex-con. Maybe it was because he's the poster child for drug addiction. But again it's not his fault it's society's (Batman).

Batman would feel bad and probably very guilty (he's got a guilt complex to begin with) about the Thief's suicide but he would never kill himself. The answer to this is Jason Todd. Batman was literally responsible for the death of a teenager, but he never killed himself over it.

The director just wanted to kill a superhero and thought he found a story that fit into a mythic character's persona but he failed to note that while Batman maybe a very dark character; he fights with the intention of winning his war on crime and nothing will detour him from that goal. That's what I dig about the character.

I'm not exactly a huge fan of Sandy Collara, but Dead End was infinitely better than this.