Batman Begins (Blu-ray, Limited Edition Giftset) PG-13
Evil fears the knight.
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 20 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 8, 2008
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Katie Holmes, Christian Bale, Cillian Murphy & Morgan Freeman | |
Performer: | Ken Watanabe, Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson, Michael Caine, Lucy Russell & Sara Stewart | |
Directed by | Christopher Nolan | |
Edited by | Lee Smith | |
Screenwriting by | David S. Goyer & Christopher Nolan | |
Composition by | Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard | |
Produced by | Emma Thomas, Charles Roven & Larry J. Franco | |
Director of Photography: | Wally Pfister |
Entertainment Reviews:
Batman Begins summons up moments of great eloquence and power. If only its cast of characters was as fully inhabited as its turbulent city.
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Wall Street Journal
3.5 stars out of 5 -- Lined with wry humor, the film addresses questions of corporate greed...
Rolling Stone
Rating: 3/4 --
Batman has been all about darkness, Nolan just makes it a shade darker. Go see it.
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Outlook
Rating: B --
Bale provides the series with the best Batman thus far, with a dark and conflicted performance that easily matches Nolan's tone.
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Bowling Green Daily News
Here's how any great franchise should start: with care, precision and delicately wrought atmosphere.
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Washington Post
Rating: 4/5 --
The film looks great and there some striking set-pieces, but in spite of a series of comic quips -- the new film lacks a sense of adventure and fun. Nevertheless, Nolan, Goyer and Bale have still managed to revitalize the ailing franchise.
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The List
Christian Bale makes the best Bruce Wayne/Batman since Warner Bros. revived the franchise in 1989.
USA Today
Product 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 realizes 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.