A great and worthy batman film despite its many faults!

Rating: 8/10 (6 April 2013)

When viewing this movie for the first time back in 2005 I had high hopes because I grew up adoring Burton's batman films. Not too mention my all time fave childhood movie was batman forever.
In my first viewing of batman begins if truth be told I was not impressed because it was much different from the old batman movies I grew up with (a bias towards childhood faves) The screenplay as well was dull and spoiled some aspects of the picture, not too mention the origin story of batman (death of his parents and martial arts in Asia) was boring. The dialogue was poor at times and some of the acting from Gary Oldman and Michael Cain seemed so awkward and overdone too the point that it seemed cringe worthy. Katie Holmes was the weakest overall. Especially the scene were she slaps Christian bale was just awful acting.
Gary Oldman in the role of commissioner Gordon appeared like he was about too have a nervous breakdown in many of his scenes. And seriously casting the manager from the full monty (Tom Wilkinson) as a mob boss? I this meant too be an American or British movie?
The fight scenes were poor and should have been done better. Let's just say the ending was not great either.
That said despite the negatives, over the years I have grown fond of this classic since there is a lot of charm in this addition too the franchise Actors such as cilian Murphy, Morgan Freeman and Liam neeson are brilliant in there roles. Michael Caine and Morgan freeman added some light humour too a very bleak story. And last and not least Christian Bale was a class above in playing batman/Bruce Wayne. He really portrayed the tortured side of Wayne really well.
Its very clever how Nolan shows us how anyone if they wanted too could become the dark knight and how he would survive in the real world...even if I am not a fan of Nolan's realism its very clever how he shows process of Bruce Wayne becoming bat man.
Overall I would recommend any non comic book or movie goer too view this film because its a timeless classic.