Top Films of the Year... and The Year's Not Even Done Yet!

Rating: 9/10 (15 June 2005)

i don't like to give 10's to movies usually because to say so would say it is a perfect movie with no faults. NO movie has a perfect slate. But as a Die-hard Batman fan and lover of movies... this came DAMN close.
it's reinvented. refueled. modernized. and kick-ass. the movie draws you in from the get-go! Pulling you in by your hair, we learn of Bruce Wayne's pain and hatred over the death of his parents and the one who committed it. unable to actually DO the deed, he runs. not away. but chasing after something. something he never expected he'd have to. his fear.
I was doubting Bale. His playboy demeanor. pretty boy smile and attitude. to change it into your "true" self as the real Bruce Wayne in my most loved comics does; the one challenge that could break the movie if not done right. I applaud him. He BECOMES the Knight. i really saw it when he yanks up a thug by his legs upside down 20 stories. when he yanks him up to the top, he grabs him by the hair and just KILLS with his voice and eyes. i can't explain it. it just feels right.
after 7 years, he returns to give justice a rightful place in Gotham. i kid you not: this movie delivers plot points that no movie has cared to include. there are SO many great points that just give the character depth and the movie THAT much more credibility as a believable feature. By telling you them all, i'd be spoiling the surprise and the joy of seeing it for the first time.
To know that this movie franchise is signed on for a full trilogy (with most of the cast signed on for that FOR NOW) made my heart skip beats when it was finished. Christopher Nolan's directing and inward vision from the books is just what the Bat Franchise needed to be resurrected. i hope he realizes how great his talent is with the making of these films.
Too good to be true, kids. Too good to be true.