Product: Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
Rating: 4.0
This Batman is the best comic movie yet
I really enjoy the comic book movies. Some of have been done very well like, the Spiderman movies, and the X-men movies, but then some have not exactly hit the mark like, The Fantastic 4, and Daredevil. Batman Begins absolutly deserves to be in the class of super hero movies that have been done well.I confess that I was a little leary about watching this movie. I really enjoyed the original Batman movie with Michael Keaton, and I thought the second movie (michael keaton as well) was quirkey but enjoyable. But after these two the batman movies were honestly not that good.The cool thing about the first two batmans was the fact that they did not try to hide that these were comic book inspired films. They were kind of like live movies that resembled animation. It wasn't believable, but I don't think it was suppossed to be. The last two Batmans, took the comic book animated look to a new level, and it just didn't work.Recently with the X-men movies we saw a new style of comic book movies being made in a more believable, less comic book style format, and that format for the most part has created a better movie. With the creation of the Spiderman movies I believed the format hit perfection. The super hero movie wasn't going to get any better.After watching Batman Begins I have changed my mind. I think that this movie edges out Spiderman 2, by a hair. The action and story is just as good as Spiderman, but the evil enemies in Batman are scarier than Spiderman.The cast in the movie is great. Katie Holmes, Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, and Liam Neison play great parts. But my favorite actor in the movie was Michael Caine, who does a superb job as Alfred.And the most surprising role in the movie was Gary Oldman. Until this movie I had never seen Oldman in anything but the villain, but he plays a great supporting character to Batman.The only thing I disliked about the movie, was the fight scenes were a little confusing to watch.This is a great movie!