Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson

The tale finds the disillusioned industrial heir Bruce Wayne, in the wake of his parents' murder, traveling the world to seek the means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the f...( read more  read more... )earful. 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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PG-13, 2 hrs. 20 min.

Directed by: Christopher Nolan

Release Date: June 15, 2005

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DVD Release Date: October 18, 2005

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  • October 31, 2007
    A dark and hard-charging big-screen comeback for the Dark Knight. Christian Bale IS Batman.
  • September 14, 2009
    Christopher Nolan hits the nail on the head. Batman is back, he's dark, he's a bloody schizophrenic! and he's the perfect anti-hero! A much needed reboot goes well. The cast are perfect (Apart from Holmes but that is soon rectified in the next film)
  • September 8, 2009
    Thank God that the Batman franchise was rebooted. Everything after Batman Returns was misguided and wrong. Batman Begins is the DC equivalent of the first Spider-man movie. It establishes the the charachter in a way that's interesting and true to what has made that character so ...( read more)popular for so many years.

    Besides Katie Holmes' character and a running time that's just a bit too long, I didn't find much to complain about with this movie. The choice of villians was great, Gotham looks good, and Christian Bale makes a great Batman/Bruce Wayne. Batman Begins isn't just a good superhero movie, it's simply a good movie.
  • May 30, 2009
    Director Christopher Nolan took this almost dead franchise and blew a breath of fresh air into it. It just flew in out of nowhere and blew everyone away as far as how much better it was than anyone thought a Batman film could be again. The choice to cast one of the best actors wo...( read more)rking today, Christian Bale, as the dark knight was pure genius and it doesn't hurt that we have the likes of Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, and Michael Caine supporting him. This will always be remembered as the film that effectively saved this much loved character's life.
  • April 2, 2009
    Absolutely incrediable. A gripping, compelling and astonishing film thats also deeply moving and extroadinary. A masterpiece. Director, Christopher Nolan brings new life to the story of The Dark Knight and crafts it perfectly. An action-packed extravaganza that explodes off the s...( read more)creen. The speacial effects and action sequences are amasing. Spectacular and fasinating. Riveting, powerful, thrilling and exhilerating. It's the best Batman movie ever. A true vision brought to life by a visionary and talented director. It's more dark and more fun than the other films. It goes deeper and more character driven then any of the other films. An excellent and mind-blowing film in every way. The story is absorbing and characters are flawless. A breathtaking and adreniline-pumping epic. You wont belive what you see. A hugely entertaining, sophisticated, intelligent and unforgettable movie. A brilliant and superb cast top-notch performances. Christian Bale is teriffic. Michael Caine is marvelous. Liam Neeson is magnificent. Cillian Murphey is fantastic. Gary Oldman is excellent. Tom Wilkonson is brilliant. Morgan Freeman is simply great.
  • November 7, 2009
    A extraordinary and ingenious reinvention of the Batman legend, a dark and intense film with a sensation performance by Christian Bale who makes the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne his own. Stylish direction by Christopher Nolan and sterling performances from it's all star cast. A vis...( read more)ually sumptuous film and one of the year's very best.
  • November 7, 2009
    I have just seen the half of it but that was GOOD! O.O
  • November 7, 2009
    It shouldn't really be possible to make more good batman movies, but it was actually a good film that didn't feel nagged..and ofc, cillian murphy is always hot as the bad guy
  • November 6, 2009
    I have seen every incarnation of the legendary Batman character, Batman(1989), Batman Returns(1992), Batman Forever(1995), Batman and Robin(1997). But after watching the previous four and one failing me miserably I had given up hope of a fifth Batman movie until a British fil...( read more)mmaker by the name of Christoper Nolan stepped up to the plate and dared to do what no one had done since Burton, make a serious and dark Batman incarnation.



    Batman Begins take audiences all the way back to the beginning of the career of the fabled Dark Knight, we are show in chronological order the sequences of events leading up to the beginning of his reign as the silent guardian of Gotham City. It's a dark, exceedingly smart, well crated and well written reboot of the Batman series. It's all thanks to Chris Nolan, who brought this franchise out of oblivion and back to it's roots stronger and better than ever before. He has truly crafted a movie experience and a comic book adaption like no other.





    Christian Bale(Who is no Michael Keaton.) Is fantastic here and does amazing at playing a more disturbed and distraught Bruce Wayne the likes we've never seen before. Michael Cane(Taking over for four time predecessor Michael Gough.) Is amazing as the trusty and witty Alfred Pennyworth he is simply magnificent and amazing to watch onscreen as Bruce Wayne's surrogate father. Gary Oldman(who I had no doubts about for this film.) Is another class act in this film as the honest and trustworthy Jim Gordon(take mind this is Pre-Commissioner Gordon.) Oldman rocks the house as Gordon and brings much more to the character than Pat Hinge did, he is utterly fantastic. Liam Neeson is the show stealer as the vicious and maniacal Ra's Al Ghul he is nothing short of brilliant and poetic he brings much more to the table than the rest of the cast and outclasses them in some parts of the movie, but none the less Neeson rocks in this. The cast in all does great with there assigned parts and really makes this film a great an quintessential movie in the Batman Franchise.





    Batman Begins is one of those rare movies that you like right off the bat. You can't hate it because it's too good and well made, and you've got to like it because of the nature of the film and the comic book character that is being put to the ultimate test on screen. All in all Chris Nolan's Batman Begins is fantastic and something to admire and relish as time goes on, it's masterpiece just like the original and a step up for comic book adaptions. All in all it delivers.
  • November 6, 2009
    Great movie1 Christian Bale IS the best Batman, no doubts about it.

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    January 17, 2009
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  • vampirehs
    January 7, 2009
    batman its my hero when i was child and now he is still my hero he is dark knight always for me
  • rbevanx
    September 1, 2008
    Top notch film. Better than The Dark Knight which was still a good film.
  • thedudedean
    July 26, 2008
    STATION.
  • TheInfamousMrFrankGunn
    July 20, 2008
    This film sucked! And The Dark Knight probably will too. Bring back Mr.Burton you fools!! The first hour is good, but the Batman action scenes in this film were so overly homosexual, I didn't know whether to throw up or laugh. A disaster of a film as far as this old school Batman fan is concerned. This is the second worst Batman film ever made.

    Batman: The Movie (1966) 3 stars

    Batman (1989) - 4 and a half stars

    Batman Returns - 3 stars

    Batman Forever - 2 and a half stars

    Batman & Robin - 1 and a half stars

    Batman Begins - 2 stars
  • enrique34024
    July 10, 2008
    The last batman movies seemed to have been adapted from the cartoon shows on WB Kids. This version of Batman however, & let me just say this is the best version, takes on a realism that other comic book movies don't have. Or perhaps it is the fact that the filmmakers weren't targeting child audiences. Whatever the reason, this movie rocks!!!
  • AgentLexi2132
    July 1, 2008
    ''Are you ready to begin?''


    Like it's title, the beginning truly is the masterpiece. Liam Neeson & Christian Bale show how deep a man with a dark side that needs a destiny can be.
  • itbegins2005
    June 16, 2008
    DC Comics was, for a long time, criticized about not starting an Ultimate comics line of their own when Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate X-Men became huge hits. Ironically, however, this movie is everything an Ultimate Batman would have to have been: a perfect distillation of the character's origins and motivations, but set in a contemporary timeline and featuring streamlined continuity (such as the paired-down portrayals of Ra's Al Ghul and Scarecrow). And yes, I am a massive geek.

    Now if only Warner Brothers would follow this example with the rest of the characters in the DCU for their own feature film endeavors!
  • xBatwomanx
    April 12, 2008
    Fucking deadly film!!

    No doubt about it.
    And Christian Bale is hot!!
  • spiderfan4life
    January 5, 2008
    Best comic movie of the decade. nuff said

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