Product: Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
Rating: 5.0
A great prequel to the later films!! Deserves an Oscar!!
Batman Begins explores how Bruce Wayne transforms from the rich little boy to a criminal convict into a justice upholding and noble Batman. The entire cast does a great job of acting especially Christian Bale as Batman, Morgan Freeman as Dr. Fox, Liam Neeson as Ducard, and Gary Oldman as Officer Gordon. Everyone has read the DC Comic of Batman and thus they know that Bruce's parents were murdered right in front of his eyes. The film builds around this event to showcase Bruce's forever anger towards criminals. Also, the film explores how Bruce becomes synonymous with bats. When Bruce was young, he fell into a well and bats attacked him because they were afraid of him. As the film progresses, Bruce embraces the criminal world so he could survive. Eventually he gets caught and thrown in jail. Time progresses and Liam Neeson comes along with a proposition: Join the Dark Shadows and embrace a crime fighting world with extreme consequences for wrong-doers. However, after ninja training, Wayne rejects and blows up the training facility.Okay, I won't tell the entire plot but this is THE BEST of all the Batman movies. The scene were Gary Oldman (Officer Gordon) is driving Batman's "Battank" is AWESOME. It is about time that Gary Oldman plays a good-guy in the films for once ... he's a great villian and he's a great good-guy in Batman Begins. Another actor worth mentioning is Liam Neeson. At the beginning of the film, Liam is an idealistic person who is a tough trainer. As the film goes along and the plot progresses, Liam turns out to be a bad guy!I like how the film merges the prequel film with the later films and how they introduce Joker. In the second last scene, Officer Gordon shows Batman a joker card saying that, "... this villian has a knack for theatrics... much like you... and leaves a call card." and opens a wallet containing a joker card. A great transition to the later films!Batman Begins boasts top-notch special effects, great acting, lots of Batman toys, and most of all a good, strong plot....unlike the later films.BUY this movie! It is a great movie! It stands alone in the Batman series(literally).