"Does it come in black?"

Rating: 10/10 (13 December 2007)

I remember seeing the new Batsuit on a Empire magazine; I did not like it at all.
"Looks like something the army would create", is what I said.
Bruce Wayne lives a happy childhood, born to one of the most wealthiest families in Gotham City; he spends his days playing with the house maid's daughter, Rachel.However his life is about to change when he fall into a old family well; and here he encounters something that will become a fear and a weapon.
A Bat.
Later on Bruce accompanies his parents to the Opera where his bat phobia returns and he leaves; as his parents exit the opera house they are mugged and in the process Bruce's parents are killed.
Bruce grows up alone with only his family butler, as a guardian.
As he grows older he becomes more and more disillusioned and wants revenge on the criminals responsible for the death of his parents. This thirst for revenge ends his friendship with Rachel and a meeting with a local gangster, Carmine Falcone; leaves the young man with a dilemma.
How can you bring someone to justice, who is feared? Bruce leaves Gotham and goes travelling and meets Ra's Al Ghul; leader of a vigilante group. Bruce learns valuable lessons, especially the one thing that will help him the most. Fear.
As Bruce realises the difference between revenge and justice he finds himself in a predicament; Ra's Al Ghul is a killer, something Bruce is not. Bruce destroys Ra's Al Ghul fraternity and arrives back in Gotham ready to fight the evil that infests the City.
He discovers the Bat Cave; finds a symbol that he can use, a Bat. He finds high-tech weapon and armour that was designed for the army and uses this to aid him, he tracks down gangster Carmine Falcone and brings him to justice only to learn theirs a bigger threat, Scarecrow.
A psychopathic psychologist; as Batman wages war with the insane, he finds his alter-ego, The Batman becoming more and more dominant.
Nolan brings the Batman origins into the light in this movie; the origins of the Bat have never been revealed on a live action movie.
Christian Bale portrays the role of Multi-Millionaire with pure elegance and plays Batman with a ferocity. Actos such as Liam Neeson, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman and even Katie Holmes hold there own, against the lead.
But Cillian Murphy is a pure treat as the sadistic and insane Scarecrow; he oozes evil.
The whole army suit is a brilliant idea, after watching the film it made perfect sense, (were else would Batman get his stuff?) and the Tumbler is the finishing touch. It is big and scary, perfect for the Dark Knight. This is above all an origin story and the best origin story, it provides satisfactory answers to question that fans have asked for a long time.
The fight scenes were a little off, they seemed to all over the place but then again thats how a bat fights.
But it is the whole use of Fear that stands out; the enemies thinking of the hero as a non-human creature is perfect especially when he starts to snag the bad guys one by one.
Fantastic!