Feeling better about the franchise

Rating: 9/10 (7 October 2005)

While MY choice to direct the next batch of Dark Knight movies would've been David Fincher("Seven","FIght Club" in case you were not aware),Christopher Nolan does a striking job as the helmsman for this return to the genre abandoned after the ostentatious Joel Schumacher offerings from the mid to late 1990s.
The story of BAtman is pretty understood by now. Here is mostly details. Orphaned Bruce Wayne(still youthful actor Christian Bale,excellent par usual) recalls his boyhood love and adulation of his family,particularly his philanthropic doctor of a father(Linus Roache,who seems to show up everywhere these days),his subsequent trauma and powerlessness of witnessing there murders and his inability to either defend or avenge them. The details of his transformation into the dual Wayne?Batman character are explored in more depth here. From a self-destructive journey of self-destruction through maximum security prisons to his being mentored by the "League of Shadows" to his reclamation of Wayne enterprises and careful crafting of a crime-fighter who "would make evildoers as afraid of him as he was of them"(I'm paraphrasing).
Superb performances by Morgan Freeman,as a gizmo expert who Wayne chums with on the sly,Michael Caine as Alfred,who has to assume monumental parental qualities of MAster Bruce and BAle himself,who did some extreme beefing from his turn in "The MAchinist". I enjoyed this movie immensely,and while it may've lacked the fun or style of the Tim Burton's first "Batman" this still satisfies greatly.