Product: Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
Rating: 5.0
A fresh start
"Batman Begins" is the best film yet about Bob Kane's Caped Crusader. It goes a little over the top at the end, and someone should tell star Christian Bale that his imitation, intentional or not, of Clint Eastwood's voice sounds more like Kurt Russell in those "Escape from New York" movies than the man himself, but the movie is ambitious in ways that 1989's Batman was not, especially in detailing the origins of Bruce Wayne's altar ego.And the cast...whoa, the cast: Gary Oldman as Gordon before he became Commissioner, Michael Caine as Alfred, Morgan Freeman as the inventor who supplies Batman with his hi-tech gadgets, and Liam Neeson as an early mentor. This is the fifth "Batman" movie from Warner Bros., but it's not a sequel. It's a fresh start.Brian W. Fairbanks