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Storyline
In tone with the early "Batman: Year One" style comics. As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes, a trauma which led him to become obsessed with revenge but his chance is cruelly taken away from him by fate. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra's Al-Ghul, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system whilst the company he inherited is slowly being pulled out from under him. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armored suit leads him to take on 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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Christopher Nolan
Christopher Jonathan James Nolan (born July 30, 1970) is a British/American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is known for writing and directing such critically acclaimed films as Memento (2000), Insomnia (2002), The Prestige (2006), Inception (2010), and rebooting the Batman film franchise. Nolan is the founder of the production company Syncopy Films.
He often collaborates with his wife, producer Emma Thomas, and his brother, screenwriter Jonathan Nolan, as well as cinematographer Wally Pfister, film editor Lee Smith, composers David Julyan and Hans Zimmer, special effects coordinator Chris Corbould, and actors Christian Bale and Michael Caine.
Nolan's most critically and commercially successful film is The Dark Knight.
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The Dark Knight is back
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Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert!Scarred for life by being the sole witness to the murder of his parents (Linus Roache and Sara Stewart), "Bruce Wayne" (Christian Bale) finds himself in a foreign prison. He tolerates cruel treatment to observe the ways of how the criminal mind works. When he is placed into solitary confinment, he us visited by the mysterious "Ducard" (Liam Neeson), who offers "Wayne" a chance to join "The League of Shadows", a secret group of vigilantes led by "Ra's Al Ghul" (Ken Watanabe).
"Ducard" trains "Wayne" in the ways of the ninja and the ideals of "Al Ghul". He also shows him how to manipulate the fears of his enemy by conquering his own, which, in this case is bats.
After refusing to execute an accused murder to show his loyalty to the league, he returns after seven years to "Gotham City". There, "Wayne" secures assistance from his family's loyal butler "Alfred" (the wrongly cast Sir Michael Caine), one of the few good cops in the city named "Jim Gordon" (Gary Oldman), family friend "Lucius Fox" (Morgan Freeman). Together, some unknowing, they first bring down the top crime boss of "Gotham City," "Carmine Falcone" (Tom Wilkinson).
With "Falcone" behind bars, "The Batman" goes after a psychologist who specializes in fear by the name of "Dr. Jonathan Crane" (Cillian Murphy), who uses a toxin which induces extreme fear, and a scarecrow mask on his victims -- all of whom worked for "Falcone" and the crime boss himself. "Dr. Crane" plans to put the toxin in the city water supply when Assistant District Attorney "Rachel Dawes" (Katie Holmes) learns of his plans.
But what "Batman" doesn't expect is whom "Dr. Crane" is working for.
This is not the 1960's TV "Batman"...
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reviewed by The_MOW (Filmaster.com) on the 8th of May 2011
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Pure entertainment. Surprisingly real yet "super" at the same time, Batman Begins is an outstanding origin story for Batman. Best superhero film of 2005.