Product: Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
Rating: 5.0
Thank you Christopher Nolan!!!!!!!!!
After director Joel Schumacher made Batman a travesty of the character and left the series in shambles with his showboat-over-produced-butt-and-crotch-shot-flash-in-the-pan `96 release of Batman and Robin, it was extremely hard to see a Batman film in the future that would be worth any appeal whatsoever. Thankfully, director Chris Nolan saw this as an opportunity to do justice to the series, as well as completely reinvent it to peak the interest back into the original Batman fans, as well as create completely new fans for the new millennium.Batman Begins is a spectacular visual feast that not only exercises visual style, but focuses more on Batman as a character as opposed to how flashy his suit or how many things his Batmobile can do. And that's what I really liked about this movie, it was more real than most of the Batman films, not substituting substance for rubberized crotch or butt shots.And I think fans of the comic book will find this one especially interesting because this is probably the darkest Batman flick, both visually and thematically and definitely stays truer to its origins.I was also very pleased to see The Scarecrow villain in Batman Begins, being a huge fan of his from the animated series on Fox sometime ago.Aside from all that, I thought Batman Begins had a strong story going for it, answering all the right questions I've always had about how Batman became Batman; where did he learn to fight? and where did he get all his things like his suit and grappling guns?If you were just as disappointed with the last couple of Batman flicks as I was or never found Batman appealing at all really, I recommend seeing Batman Begins, because it is in the truest sense of the phrase, a new beginning in the series and will have you praising Chris Nolan for either breathing a much need breath of fresh air in the series or giving you an interest in this more modern Batman.