"You really started something"

Rating: 9/10 (8 June 2019)

To quote Gordon at the end of the film "you really started something". I don't think they actually knew they had started one of the greatest trilogies of our time. Probably the best "origin" story of an established character ever. Christopher Nolan brought Batman back from the depths of George Clooney and the Batman/Robin film. It really set up what was possible with a movie based on a comic by giving it good writing/acting with a gritty and realistic backdrop. The theme of using fear and becoming a symbol to becoming "more than a man in the eyes of your opponents" was so well done throughout. Even in the dark knight and dark knight rises which were superior films i wished some of the "Batman" elements from this film had carried over because it was the best version of him in the trilogy I feel. It was also Chris Nolan's first "big budget" work and set the path of who he is as a filmmaker today. I don't think any reboot of Batman will ever touch what this one accomplished.