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Batman Begins - 1 Disc Edition [DVD] [2005]

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 7321900594158
Label : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Release date : 2006-01-23
Title : Batman Begins - 1 Disc Edition [DVD] [2005]
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Audience rating : Suitable for 12 years and over
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Number of items : 1
Original release date : 2005-01-01
Region code : 2
Running time : 134
Studio : Warner Home Video
Theatrical releaseDate : 2005

Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
iBatman Begins/i discards the previous four films in the series and recasts the Caped Crusader as a fearsome avenging angel. That's good news, because the series, which had gotten off to a rousing start under Tim Burton, had gradually dissolved into self-parody by 1997's Batman Robin. As the title implies, iBatman Begins/i tells the story anew, when Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) flees Western civilization following the murder of his parents. He is taken in by a mysterious instructor named Ducard (Liam Neeson in another mentor role) and urged to become a ninja in the League of Shadows, but he instead returns to his native Gotham City resolved to end the mob rule that is strangling it. But are there forces even more sinister at hand?p Co-written by the team of David S. Goyer (a veteran comic book writer) and director Christopher Nolan (Memento), iBatman Begins/i is a welcome return to the grim and gritty version of the Dark Knight, owing a great debt to the graphic novels that preceded it. It doesn't have the razzle dazzle, or the mass appeal, of iSpider-Man 2/i (though the Batmobile is cool), and retelling the origin means it starts slowly, like most "first" superhero movies. But it's certainly the best Bat-film since Burton's original, and one of the best superhero movies of its time. Bale cuts a good figure as Batman, intense and dangerous but with some of the lightheartedness Michael Keaton brought to the character. Michael Caine provides much of the film's humor as the family butler, Alfred, and as the love interest, Katie Holmes (Dawson's Creek) is surprisingly believable in her first adult role. Also featuring Gary Oldman as the young police officer Jim Gordon, Morgan Freeman as a Q-like gadgets expert, and Cillian Murphy as the vile Jonathan Crane. i--David Horiuchi, Amazon.com/i

Customer reviews

review by: A soul doctor, so to say date: 2009-06-26 rating:

Born and baptized in the Himalayas
That's a typical prequel. After a certain number of films about and with Batman and his adventures, the saga felt the need to have an origin, a beginning, and a prequel came out of the box. This prequel really has all the necessary qualities to make it interesting, plus a few extra kicks. Of course the childhood of the dear Bruce. He fell into a well, which was not a well but it looked like one and he frightened thousands of bats who attacked him on their way to some escape. That's his fear. Then he is the witness of the double assassination, or murder, of his father and his mother, and then we jump to his young age when he runs around the world and ends up in some Tibetan ninja-monk-hostel where he meets with some crazy guru who wants to make the world right by killing everyone in Gotham as an example to the world. Our Bruce refuses and comes back to Gotham and tries to set things right, to set crime right, to bring criminals to court and to have them severely convicted and sentenced. It's when the guru comes back and tries to put his plan in action. Batman will stop him of course, and at the same time he will settle his family business right by re-buying the shares of it and taking the control of it directly. Plus a crazy doctor, or mad doctor if you prefer, plus his girl friend from far away, Rachel, and a little bit of sentimental honey. You have it right. It must work if you create fear and panic. As for that the film is superb and the special effects are so special they nearly look natural though abnormal. Of course the formula is not new. I could quote films and books with the same elements, maybe not all at the same time in one book or one film, but all in Stephen King, Anne Rice and many others. The lessons that are behind that story is that you cannot make people happy if they don't want to be; that you cannot trust any unregulated free market economy because there are also some human beings who will negotiate all obstacles to make a bigger profit, and embezzling and corruption will bring the system down; that there is no justice if there is not a court, a trial, a conviction, a sentence, and the possibility of parole; that people need a dream, a symbol, a vision to be set on the right road and to stay on it. And a few other goodies, if you read between the lines and behind the punctuation. Quite great fun all together and if you don't like the philosophy, you can always get detached and fly to some kind of nirvana, even if it is artificial. br / br /Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CEGID br /

review by: date: 2009-06-04 rating:

Batman Begins DVD
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review by: date: 2009-05-12 rating:

A Very Good Film
Batman Begins is a very good film which successfully relaunched the Batman film franchise. Christian Bale gives a very good performance and is excellently supported by Sir Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman. The plot is also good and helps to hold interest although in my opinions some of the villains lack something that would make them memorable participants. Overall though it is a very good film which is a lot darker and more complex than many of the previous Batman films.

review by: date: 2009-03-31 rating:

Almost nothing to fault, an excellent and thoughtful superhero film
Very little to fault here. Highly enjoyable, thoughtful, engaging and largely believable (for a superhero movie). At last, a superhero movie that strikes the same balance as X-Men 2 - in being grown-up yet fantastical at the same time. There is one standard by-the-numbers car-chase (yawn) I might have trimmed down radically, but apart from that this is a joy. There is an animated sequel, Gotham Knight, that goes on to develop the plot in a few interesting ways. Sadly these ideas were then totally dropped for the next film (Dark Knight - which is not a coherent as this one).

review by: S Coleman date: 2009-03-09 rating:

Batman Begins Review
A brilliant insight to showing you just how the making of batman was created. nothing in the movie is fast moving and really gives you the chance to take it all in and understand the film. But it doesn't come without the bang factor and startles you every now and then!

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