The beginning of a great movie trilogy

Rating: 7/10 (11 May 2020)

This is where it beginns. For me this the best comic book movie trilogy there is until today, which happens to also includes one of my all time favourite movies: "The Dark Knight".
I am a huge Batman fan, I love reading Batman comics and I absolutely adore Christopher Nolan, so back then this was a must watch for me.
But first of all I must sadly say, that this is the weakest of the three movies out of this trilogy and even the weakest movie of Nolan and there is one simple reason for it. The treatment of Ras al Ghul, one of my favourite Batman antagonist, maybe even my second favourite next to the joker.
All in all it is a good movie and it delivers a decent story to start this trilogy. We see the beginning of Bruce Wayne and what influences him in his core, his transformation into Batman, how he starts fighting for Gotham and how struggles in the beginning. There are definitly thrilling moments in this film, wenn get action and there are some twists in it.
The directing, cinematography and the score are of course really good, like always in a Nolan movie. The Acting is on point and Bale is amazing, same as Caine.
So this is definitly a fun movie to watch, hell you should watch the entire trilogy.
But I myslelf can not get around the fact of how poorly they used and portrait Ras Al Ghul. This could have been an incredible movie, where we have two amazing fighters facing each other while there are mysterious plots playing out in the backround. I think there was so much missed potential and there where so many great things Nolan could have done with him in this movie, but instead he was just used like garbage in my opinion.
Still this is a great movie with big moments, that everybody should check out.