Christian Bale, Cillian Murphy, Gary Oldman
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
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DVD Release Date: October 18, 2005
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Stats: 75,329 reviews
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October 31, 2007A dark and hard-charging big-screen comeback for the Dark Knight. Christian Bale IS Batman.
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September 14, 2009Christopher 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)
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September 8, 2009Thank 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)
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May 30, 2009Director 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)
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April 2, 2009Absolutely 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)
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December 4, 2009This is a remake of the story and background of the famous Dark Knight, better known as Batman. I can understand how some enjoy this film, but I found the new history, updated toys, and bat car to be a serious disappointment.
Critic Reviews
August 2, 2005
Kurt Loder, MTV
June 15, 2005
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Batman Begins leaks existential phoniness from the first frame. full review
June 15, 2005
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
If comic books must be a staple of our movie diet, please let them be as thought-provoking and thrilling as this. full review
June 14, 2005
Edward Havens, FilmJerk.com
Never boring enough to dislike... never interesting enough to be engaging full review
June 14, 2005
David Edelstein, Slate
Bruce Wayne's invention of Batman is the story of Batman Begins, and it's an epic one, with a suitably epic cast of A-list actors. full review
June 14, 2005
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
A superhero saga grounded in the real world. full review
June 14, 2005
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
There's just the pleasure of seeing something that's both fantastic to the eye and emotionally dimensional. This is how to make action movies. full review
June 14, 2005
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
The action sequences feel like generic studio product, frantically and confusingly edited, and the lengthy Batmobile chase scene feels like a good opportunity to take the kids to the bat-room. full review
June 14, 2005
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Batman Begins at last penetrates to the dark and troubled depths of the Batman legend. full review
June 10, 2005
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Nolan's too good for Bat business as usual. His secret for making Batman fly is as basic as black: Keep it real. full review
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January 7, 2009batman its my hero when i was child and now he is still my hero he is dark knight always for me
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July 20, 2008This 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
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July 10, 2008The 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!!!
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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. -
June 16, 2008DC 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! -
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