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RATING: 5/5 Cast: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Ken Watanabe, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Rutger Hauer
Director: Christopher Nolan
Genre: Action
MPAA: rated PG-13 for intense action violence, disturbing images and some thematic elements. Protect Your PC
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Nudity: None
Profanity: PG-13 equivalent; approx. 15 profanities
Sex: None
Violence: PG-13 equivalent; action violence, martial arts violence, disturbing images
Other: PG equivalent; drug content
"As a man, I can be destroyed. But as a symbol, I can be something... terrifying." - Bruce Wayne Crippled by fear, motioned by anger, Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) struggles to find himself; more importantly, struggles to find his destiny…the shadow that lurks in the dark, the protector of the people, the dark crusader - the legend to be feared by criminals everywhere…Batman. Batman Begins, claiming a gritty dark atmosphere, gothic and haunting, is the film fans have been waiting for, and even with the high anticitpation, the film conquerors all of our hopes and aspirations. Batman Begins is not only superior to it's predecessors, with it's vivid visual enticement, it's explosive endless thrills that climax to plausible heights, it's terrifying and eerie villains never claiming an in-human presence, and it's psychological exposure of our troubled hero, but it is superior to any comic book film, including the surprisingly fascinated "Spider-Man 2". Here resides the greatest comic book adventure ever filmed; and more fascinating than all, Batman Begins plays unlike your average comic book adaptation - the cheesy and in-human formations have been excluded, the superhuman powers have been denied to our character, and only what remains is blood running the veins of a human man tortured by his past and his aspiration to make his parents proud and the world crime free. Batman Begins receives the highest possible rating, and frankly because director Christopher Nolan ("Insomnia", "Memento") nearly flawlessly resurrects the dead franchise, and introduces no excuses for failure. Nolan has created a vehicle that will be the new standard for comic book films. {snippet amazon} does not exists! One of the most difficult challenges probably was finding the best actor to take on the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman. In the past we witnessed Val Kilmer ("Batman Forever") and George Clooney ("Batman and Robin") hide behind the mask; we witnessed a more humanistic and compelling Michael Keaton ("Batman", "Batman Returns"). But now, we have been introduced to the best Batman yet - young Christian Bale ("Reign of Fire", "American Psycho"). Bale gives us a man, a troubled man, not some superhuman indestructible force. More appropriately, Bale provides an angry bitter character, haunted by an estranged past. The fabulous cast includes the always reliable Academy Award winner Michael Caine ("The Cider House Rules", "Hannah and Her Sisters"), Academy Award nominee Liam Neeson ("Schindler's List"), the sweet natured but wasted Katie Holmes ("First Daughter", "Abandon"), the always compelling Gary Oldman ("Hannibal", "Murder in the First"), a fabulously eerie Cillian Murphy ("Cold Mountain", "28 Days Later…"), Academy Award nominee Tom Wilkinson ("In the Bedroom"), and Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman ("Million Dollar Baby"). Batman Begins is exactly what fans could have hoped for. If you thought "Spider-Man" and "X-Men" were terrific…see Batman Begins.
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