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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Jun 16, 2005
Pros: Cast, direction, the way the story was handled
Cons: None for me. Could be too slow in places for some viewers.
Summary: Batman has been one of the most popular comic book characters for years. I have never read any of the Batman comics and I didn’t see the television show. When the first Batman movie was released in 1989, I had no desire to see it even though ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 29, 2013
Pros: does a great job establishing the characters, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman
Cons: quite violent in places, a tad depressing
Summary: When The Dark Knight came out in 2008, one of the reasons I was interested in it despite the violence the trailers portended was that I’d seen part of Batman Begins and liked it. This month, I watched ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 27, 2013
Pros: music, casting, story
Cons: none
Summary: Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale, The Prestige, The Fighter) grew up wealthy, thanks to his father's (Linus Roache, The Chronicles of Riddick, NBC's Law & Order) successful business and health practice. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 13, 2012
Pros: An all around good cast, scarecrow is cool
Cons: Pretty slow and uneventful at times, cheesy
Summary: Batman Begins is a highly decent reboot of the Batman franchise. As a kid I was obsessed with the Batman movies. I think my favorite of the originals was Batman Forever for some reason, but maybe it's because it was the only one I owned on VHS. Batman ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 16, 2011
Pros: Action, concept, Christian Bale, direction, music
Cons: Katie Holmes
Summary: After the abysmal rating of their newest Batman franchise, 1997's Batman and Robin, Warner Bros. were desperate to recapture some of the essence Tim Burton's first two films graced the character. I mean, after embarrassing your brand so badly ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 6, 2011
Pros: Best reboot of a superhero series ever to be brought to the big screen. Flawless!!
Cons: Batman's annoying deep voice
Summary: One of the best Batman movies I've ever seen...no joke. After seeing the Batman movies directed by Joel Schumacher, I walked away really disappointed and angry. Because the dark hero was nothing more than a character not taken too seriously ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 1, 2010
Pros: Amazing Cinematography
Superb Cast and Acting
Wonderfully Constructed Plot
Cons: A sequel can't come fast enough
Summary: A clouded horizon, with a bright sun spot barely peaking from behind giving off a yellowish hue, as silhouettes of bats swarm past the screen vaguely form the symbol of the well know hero Batman, then dissipates into the next scene. This is how ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 30, 2009
Pros: Emotional impact, plot, score, prescience
Cons: (Sound of wind blowing)
Summary: Of people I know in the real world (outside epinions), only one is actually in the movie business. He is an itinerant first assistant director who lives with my best friend (for whom I now work, but that's another epinion). Earlier this month ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 21, 2009
Pros: A beautifully-crafted drama and an exciting superhero action flick all in one.
Cons: The chemisty between Bale and Holmes lacks, but the film works nonetheless.
Summary: Note: Please forgive me if I seem a little too into this subject. I grew up watching reruns of the 1966-1968 Batman TV series with my mother and episodes of Fox's Batman: The Animated Series after school. I've seen every ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 18, 2009
Pros:
Good story, good acting, a fun journey to watch.
Cons:
Pacing isn’t perfect,
Summary: The film starts out with Bruce Wayne in a Chinese prison. Then for the next 30 or so minutes you get to see some beautiful editing of Bruce training for a secret organization and the back story of Bruce himself as well as what lead him to a prison ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 12, 2009
Pros: The Action and effect
Cons: less villains
Summary: After the dismal failure that was Batman & Robin, the WB decided to go back to the drawing board. Which has given us this great reivnetion of the series. Christian Bale, known for his heavy method style, transforms himself into The Dark Knight ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 6, 2009
Pros: Acting by Christian Bale and the cast. Fantastic visuals. Good screenplay by Nolan and Goyer.
Cons: None
Summary: I have a confession to make about Batman Begins: it's the best comic book movie I almost never watched.One of the bad side effects of how Warner Bros. mistreated the Batman film franchise in the mid- to late 1990s was that it ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 4, 2009
Pros: The cast minus Katie.
Cons: Lack of continuity.
Summary: OMG! Could this movie ever really be more inane? This is yet another movie with a smashing cast and turns out to be something that I could turn off, and easily without really wondering what is going to happen next. (I did, however, watch it all the way ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 19, 2008
Pros: Grittier, darker and more realistic than ever before
Cons: Not for the kids; Bale better as Wayne than Batman
Summary: Batman has been done and re-done time and again. There has been, of course, the comics, as well as some campy cartoons in the 60s and 70s. Some of us old fogies recall the classic Adam West live-action series from the 60s. Then in the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 28, 2008
Pros: Imagery, musical score, cast, story -- everything.
Cons: None that I saw. Might upset young children.
Summary: I will preface this by saying that I might have glanced at a Batman comic book when I was a kid, but have never read one. I did watch the Michael Keaton Batman movie, but my main Batman experience, prior to this movie, was watching the television ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 22, 2008
Pros: Action, suspense, drama, acting
Cons: Batman's reckless in a couple scenes
Summary: So what's up with my subject line, huh? Well it does seem like Batman has come out again and again in many different formats over the years. He's been a comic book, a terribly campy TV show, a bunch of cartoons based on the comic and then comics based on ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 3, 2008
Pros: New costumes, more realistic story, better actors
Cons: Nothing
Summary: Okay, so Batman's back for the fifth time. Phew! That's a lot of Batman movies! This time around Batman/Bruce Wayne is played by Christian Bale, a newcomer to the Batman throne, however, Bale does provide a fairly decent Batman, nonetheless. Joining Bale ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 11, 2008
Pros: Realistic approach, thorough storytelling of Batman’s origins
Cons: Slow start in the beginning, can get confusing
Summary: When I first watched Batman Begins, I was lost for most of the movie. However, after reading a summary on Wikipedia, it all came to me. The parts where Bruce Wayne was training in Asia, the League of Shadows, all of those missing elements from the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 2, 2008
Pros: More realistic than the last set; solid acting; great set-up for future sequels.
Cons: Katie Holmes (sorry, Katie)
Summary: A few years ago, the big buzzword in the movies was “rebooting,” as in taking an established franchise and starting over from scratch instead of producing another sequel. It worked in most cases, and is still taking place today (like the planned new ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 27, 2008
Pros: This film is without fault.
Cons: None.
Summary: With 'Batman Begins' Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale have managed, between them, to reinvent and energise a floundering franchise which most people believed to be well past its sell-by date. The garish sets and trashy gags are long gone as Nolan ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 9, 2008
Pros: Awesome Movie!
Cons: Can't stand how the girl talks out of the side of her mouth!
Summary: There have been many movies made about batman, some good, and some really just suck. This has got to be the best Batman movie ever made. It's a perfect blend of action with a few funny moments thrown in there. There are certain things a good action movie ... read more
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