Now we know where he gets all those wonderful toys....

Rating: 10/10 (19 June 2005)

The personality of the Bat Man is brought into focus....how a boy, heir to an empire, loses his parents by gunshots from a mugger, feels guilt over it that he may be responsible do to his own fear which caused them to be in the wrong place at the wrong time....how that boy grew up waiting for the day to take revenge, only to have it snatched away from him moments before that moment of truth which may have caused his life to have taken an entirely different direction....having lost that opportunity, wanders the world to get close to the evil element within, in an effort to understand it and perhaps successfully combat it.
Fate steps in when a secret organization, dating back over a thousand years, embraces him and teaches him fighting techniques so he can lead them in their twisted vision of saving Gotham City by destroying it's civilization because it has become too corrupt. Only Bruce Wayne didn't comply...instead vying to fight the corruption in order to save the few good people remaining...and ultimately, having to fight the very person/organization who trained him.
Excellent story, excellent cast, excellent direction, excellent visuals, excellent movie.
10/10