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Batman Begins (Widescreen Edition)

starring: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Ken Watanabe, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes
directed by: Christopher Nolan

: Batman Begins (Widescreen Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569594159
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 18, 2005
Running Time: 140 minutes
Sales Rank: 109
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 15, 2005



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Description:
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.

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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?

Cowritten 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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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Re-inventing Comic Book Movies
This is one amazing film. There is no better fleshed out Hero then Bruce Wayne aka Batman the Dark ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Exactly where Batman should have begun in the first place!!!
Finally Batman is being tributed as it should have been a long time ago. Batman Begins is where it ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - As dark and rich as a good cup of coffee
I will preface this by saying that I might have glanced at a Batman comic book when I was a kid, but ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - it works
I suppose producers could not leave Batman alone in the course of the current revival of every possible ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A unique take on the Batman saga
I have doubts this movie (or its sequels) fit in with Warner Brother's previous Batman series of movies ... Read More

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