Batman Begins [Blu-ray]

Batman Begins [Blu-ray]
by Christopher Nolan

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Actor: Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Katie Holmes, Liam Neeson, Michael Caine
Director: Christopher Nolan
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 140 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-07-08
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Bros.

DVD Reviews of Batman Begins [Blu-ray]

DVD Review: Blu-ray Begins
Summary: 5 Stars

This is only my second Blu-ray purchase and it is amazing. It is worth it just for The Dark Knight preview! The enhanced picture and sound make a big difference over DVD on a good TV. I found Batman Begins hard to focus on when it was just on DVD, the picture was kind of soft with a loss of detail. Blu-ray fixes all of that and then some. It is really nice that the movie starts immediately after loading and skips over a menu. I hate jumping through menus with fancy graphics just to start the film. Every Blu-ray should auto play.
The movie is great, the Blu-ray experience is great, and the price is acceptable.
A side note, this movie will take a long time to load on older Blu-ray players. That is a fault of the hardware not the software.

DVD Review: AWESOME
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is superb, and the blu-ray edition is great. It looks fantastic, and the bonus footage of the first 6 minutes of "The Dark Knight" is probably the best looking stuff I've seen so far on my t.v.

DVD Review: Great Quality, great price.
Summary: 5 Stars

Interested in expanding my BD collection, while I was at Barnes and Noble, I checked the price on this product. $40! Bewildered, I pulled out my phone and checked the price on Amazon. Much better! A few days later I made the purchase, and it's amazing how much deeper the darks look, and how much brighter the lights look in this movie on blu-ray! I love it. I would recommend this product to anyone who likes the movie, and to anyone who saw the Dark Knight who hasn't seen this movie yet, this is definitely the definitive version!

DVD Review: Great lead-in for The Dark Knight
Summary: 5 Stars

Batman Begins is a great reboot for the Batman franchise. After the failure of Batman and Robin, Chris Nolan explores the Batman character in a real-world setting.

This movie still feels like a classic comic book origin, but it's also different from all the others at the same time. This film does a great job of not just leading into the Dark Knight, but being a stand-alone film too.

DVD Review: One of the best ever!
Summary: 5 Stars

Katie Holmes is the weakest link, but that's alright considering how great the rest of the cast is, and the plot. See it.

Description of Batman Begins [Blu-ray]

Warner Brothers Batman Begins (Blu-ray) "Batman Begins" explores the origins of the "Batman" legend and the Dark Knight's emergence as a force for good in Gotham. In the wake of his parents' murder, disillusioned industrial heir Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the fearful. He returns to Gotham and unveils his alter-ego:'Batman', a masked crusader who uses his strength, intellect and an array of high tech deceptions to fight the sinister forces that threaten the city.

Batman Begins discards the previous four films in the series and recasts the Caped Crusader as a fearsome avenging angel. That's good news, because the series, which had gotten off to a rousing start under Tim Burton, had gradually dissolved into self-parody by 1997's Batman & Robin. As the title implies, Batman Begins tells the story anew, when Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) flees Western civilization following the murder of his parents. He is taken in by a mysterious instructor named Ducard (Liam Neeson in another mentor role) and urged to become a ninja in the League of Shadows, but he instead returns to his native Gotham City resolved to end the mob rule that is strangling it. But are there forces even more sinister at hand?

Co-written by the team of David S. Goyer (a veteran comic book writer) and director Christopher Nolan (Memento), Batman Begins is a welcome return to the grim and gritty version of the Dark Knight, owing a great debt to the graphic novels that preceded it. It doesn't have the razzle dazzle, or the mass appeal, of Spider-Man 2 (though the Batmobile is cool), and retelling the origin means it starts slowly, like most "first" superhero movies. But it's certainly the best Bat-film since Burton's original, and one of the best superhero movies of its time. Bale cuts a good figure as Batman, intense and dangerous but with some of the lightheartedness Michael Keaton brought to the character. Michael Caine provides much of the film's humor as the family butler, Alfred, and as the love interest, Katie Holmes (Dawson's Creek) is surprisingly believable in her first adult role. Also featuring Gary Oldman as the young police officer Jim Gordon, Morgan Freeman as a Q-like gadgets expert, and Cillian Murphy as the vile Jonathan Crane. --David Horiuchi

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