Batman Forever is the third in the live action Batman series and this time the Dark Knight faces two lethal enemies, the maniacal Two-Face formerly known as Harvey Dent played by Tommy Lee Jones and the mind games of the Riddler played by Jim Carrey, but Batman won't be doing it alone as a new ally named Robin played by Chris O'Donnell joins the series to lend a hand.
Batman Forever starts out with an interesting story in regards to the psychosis of Bruce Wayne and what drives him to be Batman but the film loses any and all interest in that pretty quickly in favor of nonstop action scenes involving Carrey and Jones, who totally ham it up while Kilmer and O'Donnell try to salvage the more serious side of the film, which all it ends up doing is giving it an unfocused feeling.
And not only that, the film also turns bombastic very quickly as we race towards the final showdown, director Joel Schumacher floods the screen with green neon which makes the action hard to track when you watch it and with all of the flashing lights and hammy acting, the film gets pretty stale by the it ends.
So I would class this as an example of the action pictures of the 1990's that followed after Terminator 2, nonstop action and bugger all story, so it gets by with a 2 out of 5, if you simply must watch a Batman film, go and get Batman Begins and the Dark Knight instead, they're much more worth the time.
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