Batman Begins Movie Review 2005

They got rid of the Bat-nipples? Joel Schumacher will be so disappointed. Fortunately for everyone else, Nolan rejects the other Bat-sequels' lame campiness and returns Batman to his gritty roots, showing us how a young Bruce Wayne (Bale) first became the Caped Crusader. After training abroad with the mysterious Ducard (Neeson) and Ra's Al Ghul (Watanabe), Wayne begins his one-man war on crime with the help of his butler Alfred (Caine), good cop Jim Gordon (Oldman), and tech-savvy Lucius Fox (Freeman). The cast is beyond stellar, and Nolan does an amazing job of making Batman's world seem almost plausible. There's a bit too much angsty pondering about the nature of fear, but you'll forget all that once you see the Lamborghini-inspired Batmobile.

Distribution

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Available on DVD
Running time 141 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Super Heroes, Adapted from Comics, Adoption & Orphans, Police Detectives, The Help: Male, Revenge, Bats, Organized Crime, Ninjas, Cults, Coming of Age, Evil Doctors, Not-So-True Identity, Top Grossing Films of 2005

Screenplay

Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer

Cast

Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Ken(saku) Watanabe, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Morgan Freeman, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson, Rutger Hauer, Mark Boone, Linus Roache, Gus Lewis

Cinematography

Wally Pfister

Director

Christopher Nolan

Music

Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard

Other

Peter Lindsay, Lee Smith, Sue Whitaker, Paul Kirby, Dominic Masters, Peter Francis, Lindy Hemming, Nathan Crowley

Producer

Charles Roven, Emma Thomas, Larry J. Franco, Syncopy, Warner Bros.