Amazing depth of story and originality but lacks Tim Burton's glamour

Rating: 7/10 (17 June 2005)

I have to admit that Batman Beginning is the most realistic and original comic based movie ever. It's so realistic that I started to relate the character's thoughts as my one. Obviously, to everyone who knows Batman he does not have any super powers, he just have fighting skills, wealth, wits, and LOTS of weaponry gadgets. I really enjoyed watching this movie, once that is maybe twice because Katie Holmes is in the movie. Now about the casting of the movie, you have "American Psycho" meets "Joey Potter" that's all I need to say. Their lines were so limited to a few corny puns and most importantly "Psycho" and "Potter" didn't really click at all. The supporting cast of Morgan Freeman and Gary Oldman truly deserves the props for their brilliant acting. In conclusion, this movie is a blockbuster and is much better than Batman 2-4 but still falls short to Tim Burton's original Batman, who selected a much better cast of Keaten, Basinger, and Nickleson. He defined a more glamorous Gotham City, here Gothem looks like New York City. Truly this movie is a "new beginning" to comic genre movies and maybe DC Comics' answer to Marvel's Spiderman series.

SAM