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Batman Begins (DVD) (WS)
As a young boy, Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire
parents were slain in front of him--a trauma that leads him to
become obsessed with revenge. But the rtunity to avenge his
parents' deaths is cruelly taken away from him by e. Fleeing
to the East, where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but
honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra's Al-Ghul, Bruce returns
to his now decaying Gotham City, which is overrun by organized
crime and other dangerous individuals manipulating the system.
Meanwhile, Bruce is slowly being swindled out of Wayne
Industries, the company he inherited. The discovery of a cave
under his mansion, along with a prototype armored suit, leads him
to assume a new persona, one which will strike fear into the
hearts of men who do wrong; he becomes Batman!!!
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Batman Begins dids 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, Batman Begins
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?
Cowritten by the team of David S. Goyer (a veteran comic book
writer) and director Christopher Nolan (Memento), Batman Begins
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
Spider-Man 2 (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 officer Jim Gordon,
Morgan Freeman as a Q-like gadgets expert, and Cillian Murphy as
the vile Jonathan Crane. --David Horiuchi
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