Product: Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
Rating: 5.0
A brief comment
This is the best Batman movie yet. Although I enjoyed the earlier movies, I didn't think they really did justice to the original Batman, whose leap from the printed pages to the silver screen didn't quite seem to work out and the Batman concept suffered as a result. Here we see a much more realistic version of Batman that is much truer to the original and not some Hollywood vision that is more of a parody. It owes a lot to graphic novels such as Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, as the Batman character here is a more complex individual, and a darker and more troubled one at that, perhaps reflecting the darker and more troubled Gotham City he has returned to protect. I won't say anymore except that the whole movie takes the previous ones a quantum leap up in terms of a quality script, good acting, and much better storyline and plot. Overall, a good movie that finally does justice to the Caped Crusader and worth seeing on the big screen instead of waiting for it to come out on video.