MEMENTO’S Christopher Nolan digs deep into the origins of the caped crusader with BATMAN BEGINS. Christian Bale is the latest Batman/Bruce Wayne, the wealthy owner of Wayne Industries who moonlights as a superhero. As the title suggests, this Batman looks back at how a young Bruce Wayne was motivated to take the law into his own hands, and inflict justice upon Gotham City.
Recent comic book movies have been leaning towards more character development and dramatic circumstances. BATMAN BEGINS goes full tilt. Bruce Wayne’s background, motivations and demons are thoroughly examined, providing an immense amount of intriguing information and the required empathy for Wayne, his love interest Rachel and their foes. Nolan is a great choice to revamp the BATMAN series. The same dark edge he brought to the lead characters in FOLLOWING, MEMENTO and INSOMNIA, he does again with Batman. Each of his heroes, or anti-heroes, must fight their own internal enemies before taking on the ones in the real world. Bale does a nice 180-degree turn from his performance in THE MACHINIST. Not only is he physically intimidating, but his performance reveals a Bruce Wayne beset by more problems than successes. The rest of the cast is uniformly good, with Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Katie Holmes providing solid counterparts. BATMAN BEGINS is not your average BATMAN movie, and that’s a good thing.
Grade: B
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