Overall a great Batman origin story which couldnt have been a better reboot to the franchise

Rating: 8/10 (11 May 2019)

Almost 15 years later this film still shines. Often overshadowed by The Dark Knight, a lot of people forget just still how brilliant this first film still is. It's not perfect and it's action probably could have been shot better, but The Dark Knight learned from that mistakes and fixed that.
Anyway, this film was still a huge achievement from Christopher Nolan and brought Batman from the brink of death from the aftermath of Batman & Robin which nearly killed the franchise. Nolan truly had to go though a lot just to make this film a reality, Disguising the script as something other than Batman calling it "The Intimidation Game" keeping the whole Batman premise under wraps until the script was greenlit by Warner Bros.
Christian Bale truly was perfect for the role of Bruce Wayne and Batman and pulled off the psychology of the character so well. Almost every actor fits the role very well with an almost perfect casting choice. Apart from the visually rough looking hand to hand combat sequences, the film and overall action is directed very well and is a great looking movie, which showed as a sign of things to come in the two later installments.
The film has shown it's age over time but it towers still as one of the best superhero origin movies ever created providing a detailed character study of the psychology behind Bruce Wayne and Batman that no previous installment touched upon in such detail and depth in which it spend almost the first half of the movie doing so.
Overall even though it's a bit clunky and rough around the edges in some scenes, it's an excellent character study of one of the all time greatest superheros and is a masterfully executed reboot which saved a film franchise that was on the brink of collapse, providing such a deep and new perspective and more realistic take of the iconic character