Best Batman so far

Rating: 10/10 (19 June 2005)

What can I say, what has not been said in praise of this movie? I must state, that I am not that much a fan of movie adaptations of comic books, but "Batman Begins" really took me in at once. A wonderful screenplay, a versatile director and a great cast - Christian Bale is born to play Bruce Wayne - and the excellent idea of anti-type casting by making Liam Neeson play the villain (after a crucial twist) and Gary Oldman as the good honest and decent cop and Batman allie as well as Tom Wilkinson playing a mobster really pays off. But the best actor in the movie for me is Irishman Cillian Murphy as Scarecrow. I haven't seen 28 DAYS, so I did not know him, but he really swept me away, finally not an OTT loony villain but one who is not raving mad from the beginning, but eventually grows mad when Batman uses his own venom on him. As he gets away in the end, we hopefully see him as well as Mr. Bale, Mr. Caine, Mr. Oldman, Mr. Freeman etc. in the next BATMAN movie. If the people at Warner Bros are no complete fools, they should hire Christopher Nolan at once for the sequel...