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      Batman Begins

      2005, Action/Fantasy, 2h 20m

      291 Reviews 250,000+ Ratings

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      Brooding and dark, but also exciting and smart, Batman Begins is a film that understands the essence of one of the definitive superheroes. Read critic reviews

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      A young Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) travels to the Far East, where he's trained in the martial arts by Henri Ducard (Liam Neeson), a member of the mysterious League of Shadows. When Ducard reveals the League's true purpose -- the complete destruction of Gotham City -- Wayne returns to Gotham intent on cleaning up the city without resorting to murder. With the help of Alfred (Michael Caine), his loyal butler, and Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman), a tech expert at Wayne Enterprises, Batman is born.

      • Rating: PG-13 (Intense Action Violence|Disturbing Images|Some Thematic Elements)

      • Genre: Action, Fantasy, Adventure

      • Original Language: English

      • Director: Christopher Nolan

      • Producer: Larry J. Franco, Charles Roven, Emma Thomas

      • Writer: David S. Goyer, Christopher Nolan, Bob Kane

      • Release Date (Theaters):  wide

      • Release Date (Streaming):

      • Box Office (Gross USA): $206.9M

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      • Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

      • Production Co: Warner Brothers, Di Bonaventura Pictures

      • Sound Mix: SDDS, DTS, Surround, Dolby SRD

      • Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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      Cast & Crew

      Christian Bale
      Michael Caine
      Liam Neeson
      Katie Holmes
      Gary Oldman
      Cillian Murphy
      Tom Wilkinson
      Ken Watanabe
      Linus Roache
      Morgan Freeman
      Gus Lewis
      Sara Stewart
      Bob Kane
      Michael E. Uslan
      Benjamin Melniker
      Emma Thomas
      David Julyan
      Wally Pfister

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      • Jun 20, 2016

        Arguably one of the best starts to a trilogy since The Matrix. Excellent story and script. Really happy they decided to go with someone other than Batman's biggest foe in the first film. Nearly perfect rebooted origin story. Genius move to set the story in as real and as grounded of a setting as possible. Really saved this franchise from the merciless fisting Joel Schumacher gave to it.

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      • May 01, 2016

        After 1997's 'Batman & Robin', it seemed that there was no future for Batman in cinema. Christopher Nolan took a dead franchise and managed to reignite the flame with this greatly cinematic and entertaining superhero film.

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      • Apr 25, 2016

        We waited for years to get a new and better "Batman" movie than the one we got back in 1997 with "Batman & Robin" which was a complete disaster. This movie is probably the best of all the "Batman" movies to ever be released. Christopher Nolan reinvents this iconic character in the most humane way we have ever seen the character in before. It's also the greatest way we have ever seen. Christian Bale is a very good Batman, but I don't believe in his judgment all the time, taking a scene where he is about to kill a man, but fails when the same man is killed by another assassin. I didn't really get his full emotion in that scene, but he is still very good. Liam Neeson is the best villain for Batman to take on as he inhabits the iconic villain Ra's al Ghul who we all know from the comicbooks. This is a great movie that I can't help but love even more every single time I watch the movie.

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      • Mar 26, 2016

        Reinvigorating the Batman character is no easy task, but director Christopher Nolan succeeds on every count by giving us a layered, complex and engaging character piece on the dark knight himself, one that cements itself as both a great homage to the comics as well as a brilliant piece of filmmaking.

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