The completely remade image of Batman.

Rating: 10/10 (29 June 2005)

**** out of ****
If there ever was a movie which could be not only so original, it would be great, but also would make us forget the other prequel movies of it, that movie would definitely be Batman Begins. Do you know when you watch a movie, and then you watch a sequel? Even if the sequel is always supposed to be different, even though at almost many times, it becomes imitation of the original, you still see some resemblance of the two movies, like same styles, same scenarios or same ideas. Maybe the sequel may evolve, maybe not. But Batman Begins is kinda different. Not only it is a movie that actually evolved a lot from its other prequels, but also a totally unique and brand new movie where you will not see many (or none) resemblances because the film-making changed completely to make us see Batman in a total different way.
In fact, when the movie ended and the credits begin to roll, I immediately told my friends that this is the first Batman movie. There wasn't any Batman movies before this one, this is the first. Finally Batman arrives at the big screen. For the first time ever. I know that this isn't true, but that's the feeling I had when I watched it. I don't know how the sequels will be (because if there is going to be three Spider-Man movies, why can't we have three Batman movies?), but the first one surely was a great start for (we hope) a great trilogy.
As a friend of mine even said: "This movie remade the batman image completely." Watch it and you'll agree right away. Batman Begins, nicely directed by Christopher Nolan, tells the story of the beginning of Bruce Wayne's life. How and why he became Batman. This time, the bat-man is played by Christian Bale. I still think that Michael Keaton is the best, but Bale was great too. At the party, the scene where Bruce Wayne says goodbye to his guests is one of the greatest proofs that Bale plays Bruce Wayne very good! Michael Caine is good also as Alfred (he never let me down in one of his performances), but still I find out that Michael Gough was much better, not only because of his performance, but because he really looked like Alfred. The rest of the cast includes great actors, some of them, very unlikely to appear in a batman movie, but they did. Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman, Rutger Hauer, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman and Liam Neesom. This last one is great as one of the villains.
Overall, Batman Begins is the batman movie. Even for those who are not fan of the comic books we'll sure to enjoy this movie, as in my country, many people really did. I just give a 9 out of 10, because I guess that sometimes, when you look at it, this movie looks like a crime movie. This happens because of the many sub-plots and because of the long-waiting for finally see Bruce Wayne in the batman costume. But getting past that scenes (which are not by any means, unnecessary, they're just the trigger to be pulled for us to see the rest of the movie), what happens next is of total delight.