Product: Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
Rating: 3.0
Forget What You Know About Batman
This is a new direction for the Batman franchise. Forget all about the 40's & 60's style Batman, and also, forget about the direction Tim Burton took it in the 80's & 90's.Batman has been re-worked, re-thought, re-sculpted, and pretty much all that remains from the other Batmans is charactors names. So forget all you have come to be familliuer with in the Batman sagas, and accept this movie as starting a fresh new approach that obviously will start a chain reaction of sequels to come.The movie kicks off alternating between past, present and in between. It shows how Bruce Wayne discovered the Batcave, how his parents died, what they did for a living, and what his role is now. Bruce wants to stop the corruption plauging Gothem City, but isnt strong enough. He ventures to Asia (I think) and trys to teach himself how to be tough, and then finds his way into a monk style ninja training place (I dunno, something like that) but then Bruce wants to use his new skills for good, not assasantion. He returns to Gothem and finds that his company have a warehouse filled with gadjets and weopens that the army never wanted to use or where just too expensive to market... and so Bruce, with the help of a new friend (Morgan Freeman) slowly build up into Batman. As well as the help from his butler Alfred played by Michael Caine.The new approach is a little confusing when you have seen the other Batmans and this movie is doing something different. I was kind of distracted with the thought that it's not the Joker who kills Bruces parents...and alot of those things with a familuer feel have been altered... but thats why you have to forget everything you previosly knew about the dark knight.The new direction is not bad, and it's a bit more believable then past Batmans... at least to the questions of why Bruce does what he does, and how he has so much money to do so... and of coarse, where the gadjets come from.This film wont win a best actor award, but it's entertaining and never dull. But now that Batman has been reborn with a new formula, look for alot of sequels coming in the future.