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| Batman Begins | 
| Category: Movie
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1245 reviews
Sales Rank: 4362
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 141 minutes
ASIN: B0014D6PCO
Theatrical Release Date: June 15, 2005
Release Date: November 7, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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 BATMAN IS FINALLY BACK!!!!!!!!! June 16, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This movie is great iam not gonna ruin anything but the movie is definitly worth your time its abit long but entertaning and the ending is the best setting up for the original with you know who the joker go see this movie its is so good i hope Bale does more batman movies is the future and with the same team and without a doubt the best sequel
A well crafted, suspenseful Batman movie (for a change) June 16, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just saw this movie and I came out of the theater really satisfied that it wasn't another Bat-astrophy. Even more than that, it's a well plotted, intense action movie. The best so far this summer. They should bury those other four Bat-movies. Well, maybe that's not fair. This movie does owe a little to Tim Burton's original, but it has so much more substance to it. For the first time Bruce Wayne is a three dimensional character I sympathized with. His early years of training and the characters he encounters have far reaching effects on him, as do his parents. And boy, does the suspense really build as the clock ticks down on Gotham City's fate.
Something kind of interesting is, there aren't any big superhero fight scenes like we've seen in movies like Spider-man or X-men. The fighting is gritty, camera-shaking action, usually shown in glimpses. And there are trippy hallucinations that amp up the scary factor a bit. It is intense...and just a great movie. I want to see it again.
JUST SAW IT! June 16, 2005
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
THIS IS THE BEST BATMAN MOVIE OF THE MOVIES!IT'S A MASTERPEICE!THE ACTING WAS A GREAT JOB AND SAME AS THE STORYLINE!!!!!!BATMAN BEGINS IS PROBALY THE MOST EXITING MOVIE I WAS LOOKING FOR YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!IT'S AMAZING!!!!!
 Now that's a Batman movie! June 15, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's funny how Warner Brother's didn't want Tim Burton back for the 3rd movie since he made the movies too dark. Yet Batman Begins is probably the darkest and most serious of all. I guess Warner Brother's learned that darker is better than goofy and overly colorful since Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. This is the best since Tim Burton's films and what a Batman film should be like. Christopher Nolan gives the film a human touch and makes it more about Bruce Wayne and his feelings than about the villains. The other movies sorta just made Bruce Wayne/Batman a side character to the villains. Speaking of the villains Nolan takes them seriously. They don't prance around saying silly lines in this one. Plus I also doubt Nolan is ever gonna focus on shots of Batman's butt like Joel Schumacher did. He takes everything about it seriously.
Maybe too serious though since it could use to lighten up just a little a bit. Besides having a problem with that. I don't like how Batman talks while in the costume though. I found it a little silly how deep and monster like his voice sounds. Also Roger Ebert acts like the whole poison gas thing is 100% original for a villain to do in a Batman movie. The Joker did that in the first movie. I do like how this gas puts fear into people though. The gas in the original just made people die with goofy smiles on their faces. The Scare Crow (Cillain Murphy) is what a villain should be like. He doesn't burp and say "was that over the top ? I never can tell", he's 100% serious. Cillain Murphy from 28 Days Later does a fine job playing him too. The other villains are well played also and don't goof around what so ever.
Christian Bale makes a great Batman and the best since Michael Keaton. He has a lot of inner-demons to fight in the movie. He first thinks he needs to kill the man that killed his parents. When he tells his childhood friend Rachel (Katie Holmes) his plan. She slaps him and says "your dad would be ashamed". So he runs away from Gotham City and meets Henri Ducard (Liam Neeson). Ducard trains Bruce how to be a ninja and how to control his fears. When Bruce discovers that Ducard and Ra's Al Ghil (Ken Watanbe) have evil plans for Gotham City he decides that's not the sort of man he is. He then goes back to Gotham City. There he turns a tunnel he discovered as a kid into...the batcave. Then he gets all sorts of gadgets "including the batmobile" from a loyal Wayne employee Lucius Fox (Moragn Freeman). He decides to dress like a bat since bats were always his fear. So he decides to use his fear as a weapon.
It's nice to the see the actual tranformation he makes to Batman in this one. That was never seen in the other films. We see him use all those gadgets in the other films but never had a clue how he got them. I always doubted he made all of them on his own. So the Lucius Fox character is a nice touch. Plus with Ducard we also know that Batman didn't just train himself to fight. There's just so many characters to mention in this film. Nolan actually fits in a nice ammount of screen time for them too. Rutger Hauer gets to make the best out of a small part. He is the type of actor who can make a small part seem like a bigger one. That's how good of an actor he is. He plays the not so nice guy who takes over the Wayne business after Bruce's dad is killed. He told Bruce when he was little that he could have the business when he is ready. Which is a lie because he's not that eager to give up the job. I expected some crazy employee to kill Haurer. I mean look at the other films. It isn't one where a villain doesn't kill his or her boss lol. Gary Oldman also shines as Lt. Gordon who is the only cop who trusts and befriends batman. I'd rather just see more of them teaming up than Robin or Batgirl ever being introduced again. Batman is much better without them. Batman is also much better without...Joel Schumacher lol.
THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS TOO SCREEN. June 15, 2005
This movie caputers the darkside of the Batman.Who Bruce Wayne devlopes after a 7yr journey.We are brought in at the end of Bruce's journey where he meets and finishes training with Ras Al Gual.He returns too Gothem a city in choase run by the under world and corputed cops,& politicains.Turning his fears outward he becomes a Bat-with body armor,and supplies Wayne's foundation developed.But one such item is a devices that will vaporize water and poision all of Gothem. This device has fallen into the hands of the Scarecrow-who's real idenity is Dr.Crane a doctor for the crimainaly insane.Who-is beging strung along just like the rest of Gothem by a Mysterious Boss.Can Batman save a city when he has too fight every bad guy and most of Gothems finest-save for one cop Sargent Gorden.Can Bruce be a somehting close too a normal billionair playboy,while buying up hotels and his father's corparation - He has too coup with a old flame,and a grubbing false faced sociaty.Who is he?A man lost in his own mind with a strong beleive in fair justices.
This movies goes straight in for the Heart of what Batman became known as in the 80's a Dark Knight-who willnot use a gun or any deadly weapon-just his array of Ninja type weaponary and the fear of the fearfull.This is the BatMan those directors in the 90's could only dream of making.Not a perfect movie,but close enough and is worth the ride....SEAQUALS ANYONE?
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