Product: Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
Rating: 4.0
Almost perfect
Batman Begins is the best Batman film made to date. Easily eclipsing the many previous versions. Christian Bale is as always excellent in the leading role and he is supported by a first-rate cast including Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman.The film starts by covering his early years as he travels the globe studying different types of criminal and the ways in which he can fight them. The culmination of this is the training in the temple with Ducard (Lima Neeson). This is a marvellously well done sequence and probably the highpoint of the film. Its also in this sequence that you will realise that the film is really not for young children (it has a 12 rating anyway). There are disturbing images and sequences in this film.At a little over two hours, the film does remarkably well in holding your interest, and it is only in the last section of the film that it lets itself down at all. The ending was a little too blockbuster oriented for my liking and slightly out of place with the brilliance of the rest of the film. Don't let this put you off though, because overall, and taking into account the extras disc, this is well worth getting.