I went to see Batman Begins with Sara shortly after getting back from Spain and it turned out to be a blast. The story played out really well and was really well thought out. All of the actors were really good, especially Christian Bale and Gary Oldman, but Katie Holmes and Liam Neeson played their rolls well too. The structure of Bruce Wayne’s past were changed to a small degree but it was well played out. I feel that Christopher Nolan’s new degree on Batman is really enjoyable and it could even be said that it’s on par or better than Tim Burton’s take on him. I really hope that DC will approve further films and make this into a trilogy since they had already opened the door to that.

Rating: 4/5

As a young boy, Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of him–a trauma that leads him to become obsessed with revenge. But the opportunity to avenge his parent’s deaths is cruelly taken away from him by fate. Fleeing to the East, where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra’s Al-Ghul, Bruce returns to his now decaying Gotham City, which is overrun by organized crime and other dangerous individuals manipulating the system. Meanwhile, Bruce is slowly being swindled out of Wayne Industries, the company he inherited. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, along with a prototype armored suit, leads him to assume a new persona, one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong; he becomes Batman!!! In the new guise, and with the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various nefarious schemes in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan ‘The Scarecrow’ Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.

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