Batman Begins (Full Screen Edition)
by Christopher Nolan
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Actor: Christian Bale, Katie Holmes, Ken Watanabe, Liam Neeson, Michael CaineDirector: Christopher Nolan
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Christopher Nolan
Producer: Benjamin Melniker
Producer: Charles Roven
Producer: Cheryl A. Tkach
Producer: Emma Thomas
Writer: Bob Kane
Writer: David S. Goyer
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 140 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-10-18
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Batman Begins (Full Screen Edition)
Movie Review: it works
Summary: 2 Stars
I suppose producers could not leave Batman alone in the course of the current revival of every possible cartoon figure, even if the last filmed series had already exploited most of the possibilities with one peak, the beautiful "Batman returns" with the superb Michelle Pfeiffer as the deadliest and most convincing Catwoman ever.
So, to find something new, we have here a "let's go back to the beginnings", hark! hark! such a novelty this is, trying to explore what was purposefully left unsaid by the creators of the character.
Curiously enough the result is not half as bad as it could have been. There is the usual sticky story of the poor soul wronged by men and fate who after a long wandering in the dark comes to know his real self, originally in the far east among kung fu teachers.
There is the usual town corrupted to the core, where all people is desperate or desperately evil but where a group of righteous souls still works for the greater good ( taking an airplane to some more reasonable resort?)
Ethics are trite and commonplace, completely uninteresting, so is character development and interaction.
All above notwithstanding the movie works in a way. Christian Bale is as intense as parmisan cheese and so is Katie Holmes but one cares, a little, for the situations and the atmosphere is convincingly gloom and desolate.
Side characters are good, each up to the not much required trying to give sense to the senseless lines they are given.
This film can be fun, just let yourself in the general atmosphere, the beautiful settings and turn off your critical self.
Summary of Batman Begins (Full Screen Edition)
Batman Begins explores the origins of the Batman legend and the Dark Knight's emergence as a force for good in Gotham. In the wake of his parents' murder, disillusioned industrial heir Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the fearful. He returns to Gotham and unveils his alter-ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses his strength, intellect and an array of high tech deceptions to fight the sinister forces that threaten the city.Batman Begins discards the previous four films in the series and recasts the Caped Crusader as a fearsome avenging angel. That's good news, because the series, which had gotten off to a rousing start under Tim Burton, had gradually dissolved into self-parody by 1997's Batman & Robin. As the title implies, Batman Begins tells the story anew, when Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) flees Western civilization following the murder of his parents. He is taken in by a mysterious instructor named Ducard (Liam Neeson in another mentor role) and urged to become a ninja in the League of Shadows, but he instead returns to his native Gotham City resolved to end the mob rule that is strangling it. But are there forces even more sinister at hand?
Co-written by the team of David S. Goyer (a veteran comic book writer) and director Christopher Nolan (Memento), Batman Begins is a welcome return to the grim and gritty version of the Dark Knight, owing a great debt to the graphic novels that preceded it. It doesn't have the razzle dazzle, or the mass appeal, of Spider-Man 2 (though the Batmobile is cool), and retelling the origin means it starts slowly, like most "first" superhero movies. But it's certainly the best Bat-film since Burton's original, and one of the best superhero movies of its time. Bale cuts a good figure as Batman, intense and dangerous but with some of the lightheartedness Michael Keaton brought to the character. Michael Caine provides much of the film's humor as the family butler, Alfred, and as the love interest, Katie Holmes (Dawson's Creek) is surprisingly believable in her first adult role. Also featuring Gary Oldman as the young police officer Jim Gordon, Morgan Freeman as a Q-like gadgets expert, and Cillian Murphy as the vile Jonathan Crane. --David Horiuchi
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