A great revival after Joel Schumacher's trite Batman & Robin

Rating: 9/10 (20 July 2012)

I regretted not seeing this in theaters a few years back, but at least I watched it on my DVD copy and boy did I like it. I would hope to re-watch this and The Dark Knight someday if I have the chance.
It tells the story about Bruce Wayne who finds himself in Asia captured in prison and has been brought upon Henri Duncard and Ra's Al Ghoul. They offered him to be trained as a ninja to be given the strength and his chance to change the world, but when Bruce finds out about their plan to destroy Gotham City, the place where he had once been forgotten, things started to change. So, after returning to Gotham City before he reunites with his butler Alfred Pennyworth and his childhood friend Rachel Dawes, crimes started to spread all over Gotham and Bruce transforms himself into a dark superhero. Thus, Batman is born.
After Batman & Robin killed the franchise, it's great to see it being brought back to life with a much darker film like this one. The only problem that I do have with this movie is that it's pretty much overlong, but that doesn't matter. Everything else turned out great.
The acting, aside from some of the greatest visuals I've seen in a comic book movie adaptation, give this movie a great boost of intelligence. Christian Bale gives out one of his best comic book performances as the lead character and was just as we imagined him to be: dark, brooding, and charismatic. Katie Holmes was beautiful as Rachel Dawes as is Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, and Gary Oldman. Liam Neeson and Ken Watanabe did great as the villains in this movie.
The music from Hans Zimmer is nicely composed and although, not the best music he's ever composed, is still worth-listening to. It also has some great cinematography and some solid editing, but the action sequences and the story are the greatest aspects of the entire movie. The plot had some heart-wrenching moments including the death of Bruce's parents and some great interactions between Bruce and other characters and the action sequences are some of the best I've seen with Batman fighting against Ra's Al Ghoul and the others and the climax between Batman and Henri as my favorites.
Overall, Batman Begins is not the best superhero movie I've ever seen, but this is still a great reboot that pays it's respects to the Batman character and I've seen much worse movies at my time. It's worth-watching for die-hard fans of the Batman comics and franchise.