Well now that I have Singin' in the Rain reviewed, that leaves me with only three more movies to review before I'll have written a total of 300 reviews. So for the past month or so, I have planned to make the last three movies to be the entire Dark Knight trilogy. So let's get started with doing that with Batman Begins.
Plot: Bruce Wayne develops an interest to fight against crime when his parents were killed by a mugger when he was just a kid. He starts to travel the world to understand crime where he eventually meets a man named Ducard who represents a group of ninjas called the League of Shadows led by Ra's al Ghul. Ducard trains him to become a ninja, but when Bruce learns that the League of Shadows kills criminals and intends to destroy his home city, Gotham because of its corruption, Bruce destroys their temple killing Ra's but saving Ducard. He comes back to Gotham with an intention to fight the corruption, where he becomes - you guessed it - BATMAN!!!!!
Generally speaking, this is a really good movie. I mean it's dark and edgy like Tim Burton's Batman only this time they really took the darkness with developing things like Gotham and if corruption and the dark knight himself to a whole new and more realistic level. Primarily there's only two actual issues that I can think of with this movie. First is that since and intro movie, which mean we usually have an hour or so before we get to the stuff we are really interested in and even then may not get as much as we would like in the movie at the end of the day, which is what makes most "first movies" not all that enjoyable like Transformers and Hulk. Technically because the amount of appearance of Batman himself in this film I can see people thinking that about this film, but at least Batman Begins uses the rest of the time with really awesome story/characters development and things like that, where that is not a big deal at all unlike Transformers and Hulk. So in my opinion, this is not one of those less pleasant "first movies", but I understand if anybody feels that way. The second thing is that some of the dialogue is not that great. I mean most of it is awesome, but sometimes there were a couple of lines that I thought where kind of cheesy like Rachel saying "Justice is about harmony. Revenge is about you making yourself feel better" or Gordon just plain old defying Flass by saying "There's nothing wise about what you do Flass." And then there's that guy in Wayne Tower during the climax in the film who kept saying how important it was to stop the train like three times even though Batman had already explained it when he was talking to Gordon. But regardless, both issues are roughly a mere nuisance if you will since with those two things still comes with very well done acting, well thought of story, and just one movie that really does the trick as the beginning of The Dark Knight trilogy.
Actors/Characters:
Christian Bale/Bruce Wayne a.k.a. Batman: In a way, I think he displays Batman the best. Primarily, I say that because Christian Bale gives us a deeper idea about what Batman really is with how he really strikes fear into his enemies and all around view Batman as a symbol. His voice may sound like he has throat cancer or whatever to some people, but even if it's true to a certain extent, I think it works really well.
Michael Caine/Alfred: Well he may not have more of the innocent fragile butler kind of appearance unlike Michael Gough (Lord rest his soul), but I view Caine to be better. I mean that in the extent that while he's the loyal butler he also includes how Alfred is also his...I think the right word would be adviser. Gough touched on that a little bit in Batman and particularly Batman & Robin, but this is where we really start to get that with Caine.
Liam Neeson/Ducard: Now naturally Ducard has a secret that is reveled in the climax, but I won't mention it more for those of you who haven't seen this movie yet. Anyway, to be brief about Neeson, I thought he did a really good job with the part and just all around giving those of us who first saw this movie not knowing his character (like me), a good introduction of what he is.
Gary Oldman/Sergent Gordon: Oldman is definitely the best Gordon there is so far. I mean Pat Hingle (Lord also rest his soul) didn't do a bad job or anything, but Oldman focuses more on just how Gordon really wants to fight crime and really is Batman's primary ally/partner in the war against crime in Gotham.
Music: I really enjoy the score to this film. It gives a really exciting melody that is fun to listen to while watching this film through and through.
Editing: The editing is pretty good as a whole. I had one or two little issues such the possibility of a specific shot being shown twice at two different points in the film.
And that's my review for Batman Begins. It may have a couple of issues, but never the less, it's an awesome film and much more in-depth for a film about Batman.
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