10 Great Movies With ONE Terrible Element

Anyone who saw Batman Begins in the cinema will surely remember the euphoric joy of watching a great Batman movie again, knowing that rising director Christopher Nolan had successfully restored the Dark Knight's gritty, noir-inspired edge.

And though Batman Begins remains an all-timer superhero movie for its sharp script, great performances, and outstanding production, it falls down hard in one key area - the action sequences.

More to the point, the majority of the film's set-pieces are cut to choppy oblivion by Lee Smith, who later won an Oscar for editing Nolan's Dunkirk.

Now, it's quite possible that this wasn't Smith's fault, and he was either working with insufficient action coverage from Nolan - who, at the time, was inexperienced as a blockbuster filmmaker - or Nolan simply chose to disguise the film's mediocre fight choreography with fast cuts.

Either way, from the opening prison brawl to Bruce Wayne's (Christian Bale) icy clash with Ra's al Ghul (Liam Neeson), and the otherwise awesome Batmobile chase, far too many of the action beats are spliced to shreds, rather than simply holding and letting them breathe.

Thankfully Nolan improved significantly in this regard for his two subsequent Batman movies, even if the fight choreography was still not great.