The Dark Knight Revorn

Rating: 8/10 (6 October 2019)

Christopher Nolan reinvents the Batman universe with a much darker vision than the previous films. Christian Bale is a far more visceral Batman than we've seen before and his journey toward becoming the hero is meticulously chronicled. The psychological make up of Bruce Wayne's boyhood trauma is shown and it's scars that affect him as a grown man are depicted in a totally plausible light.
Bruce Wayne's metamorphosis into Batman is the movie's strongest point. However once the Batman part of the story the interesting villain is passed over for the pedestrian Ra's Al Ghul played by Liam Neeson. I think the more compelling Scarecrow might have been a better foe because of the interesting dichotomy of how both he and Batman use fear as a tool for directly opposing purposes. Nonetheless Batman Begins is a refreshing retelling of the Batman myth is.