Batman Begins

by Christopher Nolan (Editor)

Other authorsLee Smith (Editor), Michael Caine (Actor), Rutger Hauer (Actor), David S. Goyer (Author), Christopher Nolan (Author), Tom Wilkinson (Actor), Ken Watanabe (Actor), Gary Oldman (Actor), Morgan Freeman (Actor), Tim Booth (Actor), Hans Zimmer (Composer)34 more, Gerard Murphy (Actor), Wally Pfister (Cinematographer), Christine Adams (Actor), Katie Holmes (Actor), Christian Bale (Actor), Liam Neeson (Actor), Andrew Pleavin (Actor), Rade Šerbedžija (Actor), Cillian Murphy (Actor), Charles Roven (Producer), Larry Holden (Actor), Linus Roache (Actor), Emma Thomas (Producer), Charles Edwards (Actor), Colin McFarlane (Actor), Shane Rimmer (Actor), James Newton Howard (Composer), Khan Bonfils (Actor), Dave Legeno (Actor), Jeremy Theobald (Actor), Jack Gleeson (Actor), Larry Franco (Producer), Sara Stewart (Actor), Emma Lockhart (Actor), Richard Brake (Actor), Spencer Wilding (Actor), Joey Ansah (Actor), Mark Boone Junior (Actor), Gus Lewis (Actor), Jay Buozzi (Actor), Risteárd Cooper (Actor), John Foo (Actor), Rodney Ryan (Actor), Dean Alexandrou (Actor)
DVD, 2005

Description

As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes. This trauma led him to become obsessed with revenge. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with a ninja cult leader, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City. The City is now overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armoured suit leads him to take on a new persona. He becomes Batman and strikes fear into the hearts of men who do wrong. With the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various criminal schemes that have been set in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan 'The Scarecrow' Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.… (more)

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2005-05-31

Physical description

1 p.; 7.8 inches

Publication

Warner Brothers (2005), Edition: Full-Screen Edition, 1 pages

Pages

1

ISBN

7020070078 / 9787020070077

Library's rating

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Awards

Hugo Award (Nominee — 2006)

Rating

½ (113 ratings; 4)

User reviews

LibraryThing member worldsedge
Possibly the best of all the Batman pictures, though still so choc a bloc full of all the action movie cliches that I couldn't see raising this one above a three star rating.

Bale, Freeman, Caine all did credible jobs but the actings skills of some of the other characters were a bit on the thin
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side. Especially whoever they got as the forgettable love interest. Also some of the props for Gotham seemed a bit on the Japanese horror movie set circa 1957 side. With CG so cheap nowadays you'd think nobody'd be building model sets anymore. Or perhaps I'm just being too finicky, anyway it was certainly a decent enough way to kill two hours over a few beers.
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LibraryThing member comfypants
An orphaned millionaire learns to fight crime.

When I went to see it for the first time, I had huge expectations, and it blew them all away. Sure, like any sensible person, I like The Dark Knight better. But this one has become my basis of comparison.
LibraryThing member themulhern
Long and boring.
LibraryThing member jntjesussaves
Acting: 4.5; Theme: 4.5; Content: 4.5; Language: 2.0; Overall: 4.5

This was the first in The Dark Knight trilogy and it did not disappoint (other than at least fifteen uses of bad language and the use of God's name in vain). A young boy, Bruce Wayne, witnesses the murder of his parents by a street
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thug. He desires nothing more than to avenge their death by killing their murderer. His parents' lifetime friend and butler, Alfred, takes the young man under his wings and encourages him to fight crime and murder rather than commit it. Highly recommend. Highly recommend with the above caution.

***December 12, 2023***
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