....Perfect....

Rating: 10/10 (4 November 2005)

When Batman first hit the silver screen, in his own movie named after himself, he was treated as a secondary character because jack Nicholson cost ed the producers a lot of money for screen time. in his second outing, he was placed in a soulless nightmare and didn't seem very heroic. Then his last two movies were so corny and out of whack that we thought we, the viewers, would forever shudder when we hear the name Batman.
Friends, those days are now history.
BATMAN BEGINS ****/**** It's Batman's origin story. Not only does it follow its original material from the comics (which is always the best way to go with these type of movies), it is consistently dazzling with its action, its drama and its incredible cast.
This has got to be one of the greatest ensembles of actors ever to be involved in a film. Christian bale becomes a superstar, Micheal Caine portrays his loyal butler with true grace and soft power, Gary oldman nails the character of Jim Gordon both in vision and in performance, Cillian Murphy also grabs our attention, Liam Neeson portrays the mentor (again) with perfection, Morgan Freeman... what can you say that has not been said already?...... It's just amazing.
The action here, for what it is in its heart and soul, is easily 10X better than CGI festivals like the new Star Wars movies. Most of it is all real, using miniatures and sometimes full scale Batmobile action, stunt men flying etc. etc. It's the kind of action that has you feeling emotions you've never felt for a long... long time.
The characters are all three dimensional. Everyone has motives, backgrounds, and reasons to do what they do. Batman is rightfully the best developed character. Ultimately you have to ask yourself "How in the hell can a man become inspired to fight criminals while dressed as a bat?". As crazy as it sounds, the movie provides very good answers.
Now it is long, but worth every Milli-second. We first get to know Bruce Wayne through multiple flashbacks. Then we move on to his training and some of his early days of crime fighting. We don't see the suit for a good chunk of the film. But rest assured, the majority of the film does have Batman in it.
We get to know everything about him. the explanations of his Wonderful Toys are freakin' awesome! Some of his items, including his cape, are based on actual technology. Personally when I saw publicity shots of the new batmobile I thought it was the most atrocious piece of crap ever to grace a Batman film, and I imagine some of you probably;y feel the same way now. But let me tell you, that car is amazing. It's ugly because it's designed to plow through everything like a tank on speed-steroids. You have to see it in action to truly appreciate it.
Fantastic movie. basically anyone who's been missing that spine tingling feeling you get from perfect action movies should go out and rent this now.