Wow!

Rating: 10/10 (24 October 2005)

Just when I thought the franchise was lost, it was saved by everything a batman movie should have - a great director, amazing writers, superb (and extremely realistic) effects, a great cast and a phenomenal storyline. "Batman Begins" has all of these thing and then some. While they could so easily have recycled the joker or the Penguin to be the villain, the writers did something far cleverer and drew from Batman comics featuring the not so well known villains, and (well, at least as they are played in the film) the more realistic villains, for in this reinvention, Gotham needed to be a real place in our minds, and bright purple coats or bright green spandex hardly help us to buy into the world. Despite the fact there is a man dressed like a bat roaming the streets, the world around him and his set-up is so real, it doesn't matter. This also allows for more, 'eccentric' villains for the obvious sequels, as this world is so well created. 10/10 - extraordinary!