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BATMAN BEGINS - A Dark Knight we can hope one day to be like

As Halloween approaches and will soon be gone, I was thinking about watching Batman Begins for the 5th time and decided that I would rather pay homage to such a brilliant film before I cave in and yes...watch it for the 5th time. When my boy is old enough do you think I'll let him watch Batman Begins? Yes, please...

The soundtrack composed by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard got my blood pumping with great rythum for the action sequences, and made me gulp a few times as the young Bruce Wayne shared a remembered moment with his deceased and kindly father. A movies soundtrack seems to be the backbone to every great movie, and with Batman Begins this is evident.

Nolan did a great job with directing Batman Begins. I have an inkling that if both hands were tied behind his back, he'd have done just as good, with a well aged and loved cast of Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, and Liam Neeson, Batman Begins was bursting from the gate with talent. Katie Holmes(her first good movie), Ken Watanabe, Cillian Murphy, and Tom Wilkinson also did quite well in their supporting roles, never once taking away from the feeling that I was really watching a Batman comic come to life(and a good one at that).

Here is a review taken from IMDB that sums things up better then I could put them...

"This film easily trumps any live-action incarnation we've scene of the Dark Knight before, borrowing heavily from both the comics and the Dini and Co. animated series.

This is a hard, fast, driving, heartfelt epic that draws you into the character of Bruce Wayne and makes you damn well care. Batman doesn't play second-fiddle to the villains here like in the other films. It's his movie and that's the way it should be.

Much has been said of the film's "reality" quotient, and I'm here to say it works. Nolan talks about how Batman's strong because he does push-ups, he gets around because of his gadgets, and by introducing each of them with a plausible explanation, we forget to quibble and go along with it. The technology may be fantastic, but it's believable. And, unlike the "reality" of something like Daredevil, Nolan doesn't forget his ideals halfway though and start having Batman wire-jump thirty feet into the air."

If I had to choose one word, "Believable" is it. Now I watch happily for the sequel to this new age of GOOD "comic book" movies which is slated to come out in 2008. Batman Begins has really raised the bar.