Hi I'm a 30 year old male living in South Wales. I like most music (especially live music) and films...
Hi I'm a 30 year old male living in South Wales. I like most music (especially live music) and films and also enjoy a drink.
Am now married so have so time to catch up all the reviews I've missed - Enjoy
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Batman begins was release a few year ago (2005) but I recently watched this as I hope to see The Dark night soon. The films title gives a pretty good indication as to what the film is about but in short it goes from the start showing the events that made Bruce Wayne decide to create his alter ego.
Christian Bale takes the part of Batman / Bruce Wayne who you first see in a Chinese prison where he is looking bedraggled and fighting 6 other prisoners, for which he is put into solitary. When he gets slung into his solitary cell, lurking in the corner is a very well groomed and rather posh man by the name of Henri Ducard (played Liam Neeson) who is well ‘respected’ in the underworld.
He explains that he can get him freed if he joins his elite group of rebels known as The League of Shadow whose mission is to tackle wrong doing on a large scale.
Bruce agrees and joins ‘The League’, is freed and manages to make it to the HQ, perched on top of the Himalayas thus passing the initiation. Here he is meets the true head of the group Ra al Ghul (Ken Watanabe) and is trained hard and mercilessly by Ducard in the many martial arts and ninja disciplines whilst he tries to rid him of his fear of bats and the feeling of built over the death of his parents. I wont give to much away about this but it is done via flash backs. Different flashbacks echo through the film and are very effective.
As the training nears its close it soon becomes clear that The League are more about vengeance than true justice so Wayne leaves and goes back to Gotham, the family home and business and get reunited with his old girl friend, Rachel, (Katie Holmes) that is now working as a district attorney. He soon sees how corrupt the city has become and when a bat gets trapped in Wayne manor he decides to face his fears once last time and goes down into bat inhabited well he fell down as a boy.
When down there he notices that it opens out into a very large cave and decides to make this his lair and become the object of all Gotham criminals fears – The Batman. With some hard work, the help of Alfred – the family long standing butler played very well by Micheal Caine and Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman), the head of the Applied Sciences department at Wayne Enterprises he makes and acquires all he needs to become his alter ego.
The above is just an outline and far more happens in the film. It is well paced, with a good plot, a nice balance of characters and a mix of action and more sensitive moments but I won’t say any more as I don’t want to spoil it for anyone.
It is all very well done and has a take on it to some of the batman films. The special effects are good and are seamless which gives it a good sense of realism, all in all this is a very watchable and enjoyable film
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