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Batman Begins
Following his parents death, a young boy trained with his mentor and using physical fighting skills and technological gadgets he aims to purge the city where his parents were murdered from villains.
23 January 1944, Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands
1963, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
23 July 1963, Sumatra, Indonesia
17 March 1955, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
12 October 1963, Marylebone, St. Marylebone [now City of Westminster], London, England, UK
29 June 1974, England, UK
21 March 1958, New Cross, London, England, UK
July 07, 2014
It's a refreshing approach to the genre, even when revisiting years later, in an era inundated with superhero movies where each tries to better the last's visual effects budget.
June 18, 2012
Compared to the flashier Superman, the dark knight was always more human and prone to brooding, but this film is way out of whack.
May 12, 2006
A nonstarter.
January 07, 2011
It may be too scary intense for younger children, but for everyone else Batman Begins is just about the perfect summer movie.
February 12, 2016
... Nolan gets the character right: Bruce Wayne is the secret identity and Batman is the real persona.
February 18, 2012
Every so often, it's time to re-boot Batman.
April 14, 2013
Batman Begins summons up moments of great eloquence and power. If only its cast of characters was as fully inhabited as its turbulent city.
July 21, 2012
If there is one Batman film anyone should see, this is it. It's a superhero film with a dark tone that's very well-written with nothing but incredible actors involved.
September 26, 2005
A rousing, reverent, often brilliant re-creation of a seminal comics character.
September 07, 2011
It's not just the birth of Batman we're seeing in this triumphant interpretation, it's also the dawning of Gotham City's age of greed.
April 14, 2013
Nolan takes an admirable stab at developing a character-driven drama, only to give in to generic action-movie conventions with a blinding, deafening, explosion-laden finale that could have capped off any number of interchangeable Jerry Bruckheimer flicks.
February 03, 2007
Here's how any great franchise should start: with care, precision and delicately wrought atmosphere.