Product: Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
Rating: 5.0
Now THIS is how Batman is done!
Great, great film. The look is at once both dark and brilliant. The casting and acting are superb (nice to see Rutger Hauer finally get a decent role - his best since Bladerunner).This is probably the best comic-book to film adaptation of all time. The writer and director give us a serious rather than silly, campy take on Batman. After Joel Schumaker (or whatever his name is/was) destroyed the franchise with his glitzy Broadway-inspired-coreographic crap I figured I would never see another Batman film in my lifetime. I believed the Warner Bros Batman franchise was dead. I am happy to report I was wrong. This film makes up for those debacles and far outshines the Tim Burton films. The franchise is alive and well. Let's hope they can keep it up.One tiny criticism - you have to buy the special edition version to get any special features. There are no special features on this edition. Cheap stinginess on the part of Warner Bros.