Great New Beginning to Batman.

Rating: 8/10 (13 January 2009)

Batman Begins marks the beginning of a new Batman Series. Using a different more serious approach it is a very good film that does a good job explaining how Batman came to be.
The film starts off explaining how Bruce Wayne endured tragedy and endured through out his life. Wayne is in another country and learns a style of martial arts/ninja from a group. Returning back to Gotham City he takes back control of his families business and decides to do something about all of the crime and corruption in Gotham. Thus is the reason he becomes Batman.
Overall I think this film does a good job of showing the intent of Bruce Wayne to become Batman. Crime helped end his parents's life and he wanted to get revenge. However at parts I think the film drags a little, especially prior to Wayne returning back to Gotham. Wayne could have become Batman earlier in the film in my opinion.
The action is pretty good and I like the seriousness to this film. Some of the past Batman films were way too cheesy and lame but Batman Begins has a nice serious tone to it.
Christian Bale does a good job portraying Batman. OVerall this film had some great actors in it, Liam Neesan, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, and even Rutgeur Haeur is in it.
I thought the Villains were pretty good. Scarecrow for me was the highlight of the film. I like how he is portrayed as a scientist who wants to control the mind by imposing fear into people by using a toxin that creates fear. Very terrifying indeed. Overall the whole using fear inducing gas against the city is a pretty evil plan that makes you want to see what happens next. Liam Neesan playing the other villain of the film, Rhas Al Guhl, really did not do much for me but I respect Neesan for his work as Qui Gon Jin in Star Wars so it was nice to see him in this film.
Interesting I found it how they did not use the batmobile and instead used a vehicle called the tumbler which is like a tank. I kind of give the people who made this film respect for trying to put in new ideas for vehicles.
So I like this film in that it has a serious tone, which fits Batman well, has a great villain in Scarecrow, and overall just did a lot of things that seemed to be missing from other Batman films. Definitely the best Batman film yet and one that I highly recommend.