Goes way beyond a typical comic book film

Rating: 10/10 (16 July 2005)

I just saw Batman Begins and I was extremely impressed and pleasantly surprised. I went in there with the assumption that it was going to be another blockbuster comic book adaptation that would be forgotten within a year. This film took the character of Batman and really went deep inside it. It was a very dark side of Batman, which is the way it should have been made by Tim Burton. When they were writing the script they could have easily went with a well known "bad-guy" with super powers and it would have been like I said another blockbuster comic book adaptation. Instead they chose the enemy Scarecrow, who I have vaguely heard of. What was so interesting about Scarecrow (who was very well played by Cillian Murphy) was that his "power" was not something like super strength or he shot laser beams out of his eyes, it was an intangible object, fear. He put people in shock by releasing their fears. That whole concept went so far off-course from your typical superhero movie, I really can't say enough about this film. Christian Bale took the character of Batman and brought it so far away from where Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, and George Clooney brought it. I strongly recommend Batman Begins and I will be the first to add it to my collection once it comes out on DVD.