Everything Spider Man is not.

Rating: 8/10 (18 June 2005)

This is one fantastic film. It is a movie based on a comic book, but transcends the comic and transcends its predecessors. This is the way comic book movies should be. While I loved the original Batman film, Batman Begins is an entirely different and more ferocious animal. Burton, a genius, provided us with his take on batman many years ago. It was dark, full of Burton, wonderful, and weird. Years later, Nolan has given us a Batman that audiences of today can get excited about. Not a prequel, this film is truly the beginning of something new, yet respectful, for one if not the best heroes in the genre.
Thankfully, this movie makes Batman cool again. It has real character development, real villains, real dialogue. In my opinion, comic book dialogue and comic book action belong in a comic book, not in a movie. Batman Begins goes where no other comic book turned movie has gone before. It's smarter. It doesn't treat you like you are seven, but still manages to make you wish you could leave the theater as Batman.