Product: Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
Rating: 5.0
BEST BATMAN EVER!
They got it! Other than BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES no other Batman movie or TV show has ever "got" Batman. I'm a big Batman fanatic, been reading and collecting Batman comics for over 25 years, have a room full of Batman related merchandise (nothing from the movies though) and I had given up hope of there ever being a good non-animated Batman film. I hated BATMAN & ROBIN but who didn't? I also absolutely HATE Tim Burton's Batman films. Burton did what HIS version of Batman would be not THE Batman that has been around 60 plus years.BATMAN BEGINS is Batman, Bale captured the rage that hides behind Bruce Wayne's harmless facade. The filmakers understand that Batman IS the man, Bruce Wayne is the mask. This is a man on the edge, a grown man still traumatized by his parents murder, he s full of rage at the world that allowed it to happen but he is NOT insane as some seem to think. The fact that he still believes that the world in general and Gotham City in particular is what helps him hold onto his sanity.The movie is dark, visually and thematically as it should be. It is also grounded in reality, all the tools and villians are plausible in a real world (the car is one low point, it would have been a cool vehicle in another movie, maybe a Bond film but it didn't feel like a BATMOBILE). I cannot reccomend this enough Batman as he should be portrayed. If you like it check out the only other good Batman films the animated: MASK OF THE PHANTASM and SUB-ZERO.