NOT just another Batman movie

Rating: 9/10 (7 April 2006)

Batman Begins is not just another addition to a large collection of films about some guy who feels responsible for half the world and has a fetish for bats and dressing up like one. This film is far more than that, i myself am not a Batman fan, and only saw it simply because there was nothing else on that i hadn't seen. the film itself is cleverly done, as director Christopher Nolan manages to create the darkly Gothic feeling many have come to associate with the Batman films. Katie Holmes plays the brave heroine who watches what seemed to be merely a simple drug bust become a dark plot to destroy Gotham while Christian Bale merely plays the Dark Knight sufficiently, with his stoic butler/accomplice is played with sneak and sparkle by the brilliant Michael Caine, nad the equally talented Liam Neeson as Henri Ducard, Bruce's old master whom he saved from death at the beginning of the film, and all the while, it is Cillain Murphy who I found truly believably evil, he seems to have this thing about playing creepy, omniscient villains who terrorize hot heroines. :)