Product: Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
Rating: 4.0
Leaves you feeling good
This movie was a pleasant surprise for my family (most of us anyhow). One of my teens thought it was stupid. The rest of us loved it.As a kid I grew up watching Batman on TV. This show gave me an origin to the entire concept of the show from the beginning by carefully and compellingly laying a foundation for how and why Batman uses the image he does and how he overcomes evil. It is a movie we will end up buying, not just renting, because we'll want to see it from time to time.If you are a firstborn, and carry the 'hero' mantle in your family, you will no doubt love this movie. It appeals to your internal sense of justice in a refined way that rejects some of the eastern tendencies that bother some of us. At the same time I flaw the plot for providing no realistic solution for the inability of men to overcome their internal battle against evil desires. The idea that sheer will power will do it seems rather pale to me. So it's a four star....but the rest of the movie is really good.Kids can watch it and enjoy it because the bad language and sexual connotations that many movies contain were absent by and large. Even the recently released 'Robots' contained a lot of references to gender confusion...yet this movie was refreshingly free from those common 'flies in the ointment' (if you will).Honestly the other Batman stuff I've seen in the last few years never made me happy. As an old 60's Batman and Robin guy this was the first movie on Batman that I've seen that I thought was worth watching. It left me satisfied with the question of why is Batman Batman...and how did he really get started and why? That's the name of the movie...so I guess it delivered...Batman Begins. See it if you haven't. I think you'll agree...at least most of you will.