Surpassesd expectations

Rating: 9/10 (30 May 2006)

It seems, that after a couple of misses the Batman has finally returned as he was meant to be, as 'Batman Begins' fully surpassed my expectations after those dreadful Bat movies by Joel Schumacher.
The movies to compare BB would be the two previous films by Tim Burton, 'Batman' and 'Batman Returns', yet the style is very different, as Burton's Batman was more Gothic and much more comic book like in style, though those films did have the serious undertone in them. Nolan's Batman tries to be much closer to real world, though after the movie really starts to kick in, it is evident, that real world exist for the name only. The Bat scare bits, by this I mean the tricks he does to scare the thugs and such, are very well done, and I was surprised how effective they were, as the trailer gave really bad impression out of this movie.
This time we see a much more focused story of how Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) becomes the Batman. We see him training in the reclusive monastery deep on the mountains of Tibet. Then we see him gathering his gear, by the help of Luscious Fox (Morgan Freeman) and Alfred (Michael Caine). We see him making acquittance with Comissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman). And we see, of course, Batman rattling up the criminal underworld in a form of gangsters and of course one of my favourite Bat villains the Scarecrow (Cillian Murphy). This all is very well done, scripted and acted.
As I said I didn't actually wait for much, as I had seen those pesky trailers made from the film and those really did gave me a wrong impression out of the film. 'Batman Begins' really is the third good Batman film, and it can be seen, in some ways at least, as a prequel to Burton's movies. 'Batman Forever' and 'Batman and Robin' can finally be forgotten.