It may seem a strange thing to say... but Batman Begins and Casino Royale actually have a considerable amount in common. Both of them were back to basics endeavours in an attempt to reverse the campy trends... and let's face it, Batman & Robin was so bad it sent a fairly profitable, high profile franchise into the abyss... kind of like Superman IV but Superman Returns wasn't particularly good.

Batman Begins may have made that modern day mistake of epilepsy inducing cinematography at times... but otherwise it was pretty much fantastic... and let's face it, that's down to Christian Bale... it's ok to find that man attractive. They managed to get Batman down as a character far better than they ever did in the 1980s instalments...

Perhaps this is proof that less is more. Sure, there might not be quite as many massive explosions or action set pieces but the time of the brainless 80s action film has passed and those which came after were just hollow and campy. The days where Arnie, Sly or similar could be handed a gun and pointed toward a thousand bad guys are sadly disappeared and now we must have things that attempt to be edgy or cool... but at least you can say of these two films that there was something to them.