Product: Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
Rating: 5.0
Stunning comeback for the caped-crusader!
I thought that we had lost our beloved mysterious hero Batman with the disastrous 1997 baloney pile entitled "Batman & Robin" and unfortunately it did kill off what was then the current franchise of the comic book series. I was also completely astounded how they turned the series from a dark and beautiful series with "Batman" and "Batman Returns" and made it into a cartoon show with the fourth one. Even the first two "Batman" movies as great as they were, sometimes had problems with occasional cartoonish character and too much flamboyance that diluted the foreboding nature of the comic. But a full eight years and a different era altogether later, the entire movie adaptation is given a MUCH needed makeover and is completely revamped with the newest in the entire Batman saga entitled "Batman Begins" and let me tell you, WOW! This movie is totally awesome!! Forget every movie based on the two-sided individual even the ones done by Tim Burton. "Batman Begins" is the beginning of a whole new era in the saga and completely does away with any of the styles of old. I was shocked by how great and different BB really was.As the title suggests, "Batman Begins" is the movie that takes Bruce Wayne back to his roots starting as a young boy who witnesses the gruesome murders of his parents during an attempted robbery outside a theatre. Increasingly alarmed by the increasingly corrupt justice system in Gotham City, Bruce Wayne escapes to Tibet but is captured and is in a prison in the mountains where he meets a powerful mentor named Ducard (Liam Neeson) as well as Ra Al Ghul (Ken Watanbe) persuades him to join the League of Shadows and train him in various fighting skills and how to bring `real' justice to the world but Wayne does not buy into their extreme methods of `correcting' the wrongs of society and returns home to bring forth his own way of fighting for true justice. But Gotham City is under a threat from a fear pandemic caused by a `super drug' that is being engineered by someone named `Scarecrow' as well as by someone familiar from Wayne's past but who it is will be a major surprise and a major mistake in trusting.Out of all of them, Christian Bale's rendition of Batman is by far the best out of all of them! I never thought I'd say but Bales performance outdoes even Michael Keaton's version of Bruce Wayne/Batman and the expressions are far more frightening yet more respectable than ever before! The expressions are highly realistic. My favorite however would be Liam Neeson's role as the mysterious Ducard. His character is without a doubt one of the greatest villainous roles that I've ever seen and it proves how Neeson is incredible at playing sophisticated villains.I never thought they could ever do anything good with Batman after storming out in disgust with Schumacher's last movie (even Forever was worlds better than Robin) but I was proven wrong! Chris Nolan as director may have outdone himself in ways that we may never be able to estimate. Forget the old movies. They belong in the last century. "Batman Begins" is a brand new beginning of a new era in Batman's history!