Product: Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
Rating: 5.0
thank you God
my prayers have been answered. after the Batman series was left a smoldering corpse after Batman & Robin it looked like the dark knight would never rise again. then Christopher Nolan and David Groyer picked up the project. jump starting the series all over again getting ride of those neon lights, cheesy dialouges, and thos ridiculous bat nipples, this new Batman flick erases the events of the first four films and take us way back to Batman's origins. we find our hero Bruce Wayne in some prison were he meets the mysterious Ducard (Neeson in another mentor role) who takes him to the league of shadows ruled by the mysterios Ra's Al Ghul. after his training he returns to Gotham City to find it a mess. criminals roam the street, people in power are corrupt, and no one has the guts to stand up and take action. its then Bruce becomes Batman, fighting to save Gotham from the corrupt crime bosses to the vile Scarecrow. Christian Bale is perfect as the dark knight, almost as perfect as Micheal Keaton, who most remembered as the lunatic from American Psycho but he brings the Batman's hurt and pain and some light hearteness that made Keaton so good. Katie Holmes is surprisingly very good in her first grown-up role. Micheal Caine as the good butler Alfred brings some well needed comic relief. not just those three but the other cast memebers are great from Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, and Ken Watanabie in his fairly small role. this movie really saved the franchise and i can't wait until the sequel titled "the Dark Knight" (pretty nicely fitted) comes out, ecpecially when Heath Ledger (the guy from Brokeback Mountain) will be playing the Joker. i know, a bit of an odd choice but still we thought Nicholson was an odd choice for the original Joker and look how that turned out. so, if your a true Bat-aholic this is the film we've been waiting for.