Batman finally Begins

Rating: Null/10 (27 November 2005)

It took Warner Brothers 16 years to finally get it right; yes this is the film I have long waited for, where Batman finally begins!. I remember when the first Batman film came out in 1989, who can forget the hype and the marketing that went into that film; it was famous and popular long time before it even came out. I went to see it the first week it was released and I was very disappointed in fact I hated it and thought it was so badly made and Burton was the wrong director and I am sorry as much I like Keaton but he would be the last person I thought of as Batman; how can you take a super hero and make him smaller than what he was written? if anyone has ever read the original comic books of Batman and could see that Keaton is a far cry from what Bob Cane had in mind, and as I said earlier there was such a hype about "Batman" that no matter who played him it would have still have been accepted; but if you rent it today you can see what a joke it is.
Above all what the movie lacked was the origins of Batman; like Superman in 1978, where we saw superman as a little boy and how he came to earth; but Mr. Burton decided to skip all that in Batman; Batman was just given to us with out any background and he remained an enigma all through the sequels. Although Schumacher tried to bring some depth into it in the third one with Kilmer and an interesting cast but it still had a very campy and cartoonish look and feel to it.
"Batman Begins" is truly a masterpiece; it is probably among the best written script I have ever seen for a super hero genre; this film delves into theme of fear and keeps a consistent paste as how it plays in the life of Bruce Wayne who becomes Batman who has his own demons i.e. Bats and how he turns that to form of terror. Bale who is among my favorite actors and was perfect for this role, he made Batman human; there was so many scenes of Wayne feeling he has failed and not sure and it was due to Bale's acting that make this character so believable and the same goes for the rest of the cast like Michael Cane, and Liam Neeson as Batman's teacher and later Nemesis.
One of the most interesting aspect of this film was its score by Han Zimmer and James Newton Howard which complements the title of the film; it has a feel of something is about to begin; its like a first act of a symphony and it never goes beyond a certain point. Those scenes where Batman escapes the police jumping off the roof tops with his car are so well put together and so well scored; the music is a huge factor of those scenes and again its the really the high point of the film where we see Batman in some real action and its also ends on the same theme song.
Christopher Nolan and David Goyer deserve to get an Oscar for this film; this Batman is a work of art and labor of love. I have seen it 3 times now and each time I even like it more for its lack of special effects and it focus on characters. This was a film I have long waited and argued to so many people that Batman genre was never depicted correctly in the big screen until now with this masterpiece. This film has such a classic Batman look of the original Batman and how it was drawn and I am so glad that finally someone at Warner Brothers believed that there has to be a beginning and maybe they can start over; because this is really where Batman Begins and I can only thank the film makers of this film and wish the best for the sequel in 2008.