Product: Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
Rating: 5.0
Master Your Fear
The Good Things*Some good action scenes, especially at the end. Special effects are very unique.*Excellent filming style and cinematography. It's a little choppy and weird, but also very detailed and vivid. Also very dark, moody, and realistic.*Storyline is great, and makes perfect sense as long as you pay attention.*Less emphasis on outlandish bad guys and gadgets and stuff and greater emphasis on fighting crime on the streets and doing actual police-type work.*What gadgets Batman does have are realistically introduced. There is a logical explanation for everything he has and where it all came from.*Characters are phenomenal. Bruce Wayne's evolution from a fightened boy to a hardened fear-inspiring crime fighter is very convincing and deep. Acting is good.*In conjunction with the characterizations, this movie also has very strong themes about fear, destiny, and human preserverance. This film was way heavier than I would have ever thought.*Excellent music.The Bad Things*A little slow for the first hour or so.*Some fight scenes are so choppy and fastly-cut that they are hard to really see (but it is a more intense style).*If you're looking for the classic campy Batman, this is definately not it. May be too dark and serious for some people (but this is probably more closer to what Batman was originally like).This is the darkest, deepest, most serious version of Batman yet. It is also closer to what Batman should really be like, and above all, has some very deep meaning in the character that I would have never caught onto before (Bruce using his own fear to instill fear into others; fear is a very strong theme throughout). It is surprisingly complex, but the dialogue and acting makes it all very understandable. And of course, the plot is great and ties everything together into one complete circle. Combined with a strong visual style, this is definately one of the best superhero movies made to date.If they keep this up, I seriously hope that they will turn the "Knightfall" comics into a movie too...All versions of this movie have good video and audio quality (great on Blu-ray, naturally). The one-disc version has a trailer. The two-disc has a bunch of featurettes and a funny MTV movie awards skit. The Blu-ray disc has all of the same plus the first six minutes of the "Dark Knight" (filmed with an IMAX camera!).