Batman Begins

Pros: Bale-Freeman-Oldman-Kaine, the darkness, the acting, the script, rewriting movie story

Cons: none

The Bottom Line: Batman Begins rebuilds the Batman franchise with a film dedicated to reinventing the man behind the black mask.

Review: Batman Begins is a return to glory for a franchise that was once thought to be sunk by Mr. Ocean and Joel S. Gone are the flashy colors that prevailed in the last 2 installments, and gone are the tongue in-cheek sexual references that try to make ...

Pros: Cast, direction, the way the story was handled

Cons: None for me. Could be too slow in places for some viewers.

The Bottom Line: Batman Begins is definitely worth seeing. Batman fans should be pleased.

Review: Batman has been one of the most popular comic book characters for years. I have never read any of the Batman comics and I didn’t see the television show. When the first Batman movie was released in 1989, I had no desire to see it even though ...

Pros: The TRUE Batman makes his long-awaited return.

Cons: Wanted to see more Ken Watantabe.

The Bottom Line: Bob Kane's creation is finally portrayed the way it was meant to be.

Review: “They told me there was nothing out there, nothing to fear. But the night my parents were murdered I caught a glimpse of something. I've looked for it ever since. I went around the world, searched in all the shadows. And there is something out ...

Pros: Bale and cast, script, direction

Cons: Potential sequels have a tough act to follow

The Bottom Line: The best Batman yet!

Review: Bruce Wayne has grew up to be very much like his father. Both father and son share a belief in their Gotham City, a love of philanthropy and a disdain for crime. It was that disdain for crime that ultimately cost Thomas Wayne his life. The murder of ...

Pros: The DVD is everywhere.

Cons: Not for small children, graphic violence and lots of fights.

The Bottom Line: In Director Nolan's uncompromising, action packed, Batman Begins, bat-fans will want to add this DVD to their collection. It's a marvelous movie with a stellar cast.

Review: Lets forget about my efforts to re-write a Christmas jingle for Batman Begins 2005, with my corny introductory title and focus on this action packed film. The movie opens with young Bruce chasing Rachel through what looks like an enchanted ...

Pros: Acting by Christian Bale and the cast.  Fantastic visuals. Good screenplay by Nolan and Goyer.

Cons: None

The Bottom Line: At last! A Batman movie that rises to the levels of 1978's Superman: The Movie and the Spider-Man series.  A must see, even for non-comic book movie fans.

Review: I have a confession to make about Batman Begins: it's the best comic book movie I almost never watched.One of the bad side effects of how Warner Bros. mistreated the Batman film franchise in the mid- to late 1990s was that it ...

Pros: Everything.

Cons: Nothing, but it feels kind of old.

The Bottom Line: has never said, "I am BATMAN!" sincerely.

Review: I'll be honest with you: I've never seen a Batman movie before, so perhaps my view of Batman Begins is a bit skewed. Sure, maybe I watched the original Tim Burton one when I was three years old, but that hardly counts for anything. But who cares? ...

Pros: Outstanding writing, direction, acting, character choice--this is finally the Batman I've always known!

Cons: Waiting a few years for a sequel...

The Bottom Line: You know how everybody's saying this is the best Batman movie ever? They're right.

Review: Well, we finally made it to Batman Begins, and loved it. We were all ready to go the first weekend, had the babysitter scheduled and all, and then I came down with a little touch of what I hope was food poisoning, because if it wasn't food poisoning it ...

Pros: Excellent all the way through

Cons: Takes about an hour before he actually becomes Batman

The Bottom Line: Batman Begins is by far the best Batman movie ever made.

Review: Batman Begins takes the Batman story back to its roots and shows how and why Bruce Wayne became Batman. Of all the previous films, this is easily the best and most mature of them. I did thoroughly enjoy Tim Burton’s vision of the original ...

Pros: A return to the darker side of Batman.

Cons: Perhaps too intense for younger children.

The Bottom Line: To the Batcave!

Review: Just yesterday, I managed to sneak away from the ever-busy world long enough to catch a showing of Batman Begins. I wasn’t sure what to expect, though the reviews I had read seemed very positive indeed. In the end, I was swept away back into ...