Product: Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
Rating: 5.0
NOW BATMAN REALLY BEGINS!!!!!!!!
I WAS SO DISAPPOINTED IN THE LAST TWO FILMS! WHO WASN'T? BATMAN BECAME MORE OF A HOLLYWOOD CELEBRETY, HE WAS TOO BUSY LOOKING MACHO RATHER THAN MYSTERIOUS, ROBIN WAS A PATHETIC ADDITION, THE VILLAINS WERE ALL BRAINLESS NUTJOBS WITH PATHETIC LINES, AND TO TOP IT OFF GOTHAM LOOKED MORE LIKE LAS VEGAS RATHER THEN SOME GOTHIC CITY! ANY OF THIS FOUND IN "BEGINS"? NOPE! CHRISTIAN BALE WHO HAS BEEN ONE OF MY FAVORITE ACTORS EVER SINCE I SAW HIM ON AMERICAN PSYCHO IS BY FAR THE BEST BATMAN YET. HIS ACTING WAS SUPERB. THE MOVIE FOCUSED FAR MORE ON BATMAN THAN ANY OTHER PERSON IN THE FILM ALTHOUGH I REALLY LIKED GARY OLDMAN'S PERFORMANCE AS AN EARLY DAYS LIEUTENANT GORDON. KATIE HOLMES ALTHOUGH PLEASANT TO LOOK AT WAS SADLY WASTED IN THIS MOVIE. MORGAN FREEMAN SHINES AS ALWAYS AS HE DID IN OTHER MOVIES LIKE SEVEN AND LEAN ON ME AS BRUCE WAYNES PARTNER AND FRIEND LUCIUS FOX. CILLIAN MURPHY WHO I REALLY LIKED ON 28 DAYS LATER WAS THE PERFECT PICK FOR DR. JONATHAN CRANE AKA THE SCARECROW. LIAM NEESON WHO SURPRISED ME A LOT IN THIS MOVIE WAS AWE-INSPIRING AS THE INSTRUCTOR FOR BRUCE WAYNE IN THE WAYS OF THE NINJA. HIS TRANSITION TO AN ANTAGONIST LATER ON IN THE MOVIE WAS REDICULOUSLY PERFECT. NO OTHER ACTOR COULD HAVE PULLED IT OFF. AND TO TOP IT OFF, MICHAEL CAINE AS THE ALWAYS FUNNY AND AT THE SAME TIME UPTIGHT FAITHFUL BUTLER ALFRED PENNYWORTH. HIS PERFORMANCE EASILY RIVALED MICHAEL GOUGH'S PERFORMANCE IN THE OTHER FILMS AND EVEN SURPASSED IT AT TIMES. HE'S SO SERIOUS IN THIS MOVIE AND THAT'S WHAT MAKES HIM FUNNY. CHRISTIAN BALE IS STILL THE TOP HOMBRE IN THIS FILM. HE PORTRAYS THE TROUBLED YOUNG BRUCE WAYNE IN A WAY THAT SHOWS THE VIEWER THAT THERE REALLY IS A SCARED AND VENGEFUL CHILD BEHIND THAT PLAYBOY IMAGE. LIKE I SAID, BALE IS BY FAR THE BEST OUT OF ALL THE BATMANS, YES EVEN BETTER THAN THE AWESOME MICHAEL KEATON! IF YOU ARE HOPING FOR A VINDICATION FROM THE LAST TWO FILMS OR EVEN ALL OF THEM, THIS IS IT! PLEASE GO SEE IT! I WANT MORE SEQUELS!