Product: Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
Rating: 5.0
My First 'Modern' Film on HD-DVD
Whilst we do own the two 'Donner' Superman HD movies, this is one of our first more recent HD titles and I must agree with most of the other reviews here... I am not disappointed at all!I love Batman as a character as he is NOT super, gamma-ray blasted, a mutant, has not had a nasty encounter with arachnids etc, he's just a guy. The only thing that makes him different from us is his wealth, that aside, he a man. A rich, revenge crazed, power dresser - now that's a place to start a character off at.The story is very believable and Chris Bale covers the aspect of his tortured psyche very well. Whilst the story does intially seem to be a bit of a slow builder, it does pop along at a decent lick until the time when BATMAN in on screen non-stop for the final reel.I loved the 1989 Burton version of BATMAN - it was just right for the time. And so Chris Nolan's version is now right for our time.As one of our first HD buys, this really knocked us out of our chair! It was awsome. Before this, we had a multi-region capable upscaling DVD and that made our R1 standard DVD look really great - I couldn't see it being bettered by much...turns out that I was wrong.There may be better out there, but I really do like this one and I recommend it to anyone.Roll on the BATMAN RETURNS sequel.