Production Year: 2005 - Action/Adventure - Director: Christopher Nolan - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Christian Bale, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman, Ken Watanabe, Gary Oldman, Lucy Russell, Sara Stewart more
Genius of mystery and intrigue Christopher Nolan (MEMENTO, FOLLOWING, INSOMNIA) helms this prequel to the Batman films based on the DC Comics series, explaining how Bruce Wayne... more
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Production Year: 2006 - Action & Adventure - Director: Richard Loncraine - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Harrison Ford, Virginia Madsen, Alan Arkin, Paul Bettany
Production Year: 2005 - Action & Adventure - Director: Christopher Nolan - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Michael Caine
Advantages: Great Movie!!! Disadvantages: Poor Features
This is the greatest batman movie ever!!!! and a total recreation of the franchise. Christian Bale has done a briliant job of playin both the batman and bruce wayne characters. Also with the great supporting casts such as Morgan Freeman, Micheal Caine etc. The two disc special edition i feel is not worth it. This is because of the "Special Features" disc. Although it has some features i dont think their good enough for extra money. The clips are ...
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BATMAN BEGINS Review ofBatman Begins DVDby
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Advantages: Christian Bale Disadvantages: none
...what you already know about Batman and more. How he was such a good fighter and how he could do all the fancy moves. Michael Caine was really good as Albert and there were good parts played by Morgan Freeman who was the gadget man and Gary Oldman as the uncorruptable cop. There were some good fight scenes and a couple of corny lines but that's to be expected in a Batman movie. If your a an of Batman or Christian Bale or just like to escape with an ...
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...Why this excellent movie didn't get an Oscar? The actors performances and directing score maximum.
Cast: Christian Bale, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe and Morgan Freeman is always at his best in movies like that.
One of the best cοmic bοοk mοvies ever published That present Best Batman by Christian Bale that suit this roll. Watching this movie you can realize the batman's character and his past. Enjoy Fantastic Fight Scenes with realism that will impress you.
If you like movies with Action and Thriller watch this movie as soon as possible. Enjoy the movie at High Definition TV's with in Dolby Digital 5.1 sound in widescreen format.
I highly recommend this movie and I found it amazing. Have a good time....
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Advantages: Good cast, excellent special effects, great storyline Disadvantages: None
...An extremely good movie. It is alot darker than than the classic batman movies but it is superb. Right from the beggining there is 1st class acting with Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman. It is actually one of my favourite movies of all time. The story line is very good and the batmobile is the best of any batman movie. It is an action, thriller and mystery movie and is still quite suitable for children. The special effects are also amazing and I just wonder how they are so god. I am really looking forward to the next movie. I really enjoyed the movie and want to watch it again. As with most batman movie it has quite a good happy ending. A must watch....
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Advantages: Visual FX, background history. Disadvantages: Slightly... boring!
...Long after the DVD came out, I bought it at a lower price online.
Watching the film, it really gave me a great insight into the world of Batman. He is the only superhero who doesn't have other worldly powers and this film explained all. It was dark and haunting, did offer a few scares.
The casting was great too, up and coming Cillian Murphy from Red Eye, Brit born Christian Bale gave a great performance.. pleasing to the eye too! If you can see past the Katie Holmes/Tom Cruise publicity, you would enjoy the film more!
However, I found the story somewhat boring and not massivly thrilling. It's enjoyable to watch with others, but doing it all alone, I'd give it a miss. Fans of the original Michael Keaton would enjoy this installment....
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Actor(s): Christian Bale, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman, Ken Watanabe, Gary Oldman, Lucy Russell, Sara Stewart
Director(s): Christopher Nolan
Genre: Action & Adventure
Classification: 12 years and over
Production Year: 2005
Running Time: 2 hours 14 minutes
Video Category: Feature Film
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): WARNER HOME VIDEO; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date: 07/08/2006
No of Discs: 2
Catalogue No: D 072959S
Barcode: 7321905729593
Screenwriter: David S. Goyer, Christopher Nolan
Composer: Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard
Featured: Hans Zimmer
Executive Producer: David S. Goyer
Director of Photography: Christopher Nolan
Producer: Larry J. Franco, Charles Roven, Hans Zimmer, Emma Thomas, David S. Goyer
Languages
Main Language: English
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DVD Description
Genius of mystery and intrigue Christopher Nolan (MEMENTO, FOLLOWING, INSOMNIA) helms this prequel to the Batman films based on the DC Comics series, explaining how Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) the billionaire prince of Gotham whose parents were killed in an alleyway mugging transformed into the crime-fighting superhero. With flashbacks to his privileged childhood, young Master Wayne, as he is called by the butler Alfred (Michael Caine), develops a terrible fear of bats when he falls through the backyard garden into a hidden cave. As a young adult, Wayne lives among the League of Shadows, a martial arts group in the mountains of Asia. His leaders Ra's al Ghul (Ken Watanabe) and Henri Ducard (Liam Neeson) teach him strength, endurance, and unfortunately evil, against which he naturally rebels. Returning to Gotham and reinstating himself as a dapper socialite and the rightful heir to his parents' enterprise, Wayne quickly devises his secret identity, commanding help from the gadgetry expert Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman). With one eye on his childhood playmate Rachel (Katie Holmes) now a beautiful woman and dedicated lawyer and the other on his mission to save Gotham from criminal corruption, Batman makes his fledgling debut. But when the blue-blooded mastermind Dr. Crane (Cillian Murphy) who steals every scene with chilling menace taints the water system with a hallucinatory substance, Batman realises he has met his first true opponent. An attitude of grave seriousness elevates BATMAN BEGINS above more cartoony Batman movies, as Nolan crafts a dark drama that thrives on sci-fi intrigue. Bale strides into the role with grace, adding refinement that is seldom seen in action-oriented films. And while the action scenes explode with high-tech glitz and fast-moving thrills, they are evenly placed among sequences of plot and character development, making for a complex and satisfying viewing experience.
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