Product Description

In an effort to deal with the death of his parents years before, a young Bruce Wayne travels the world in search of answers and comes back to Gotham City with the skills necessary to fight the injustices around him.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 14-FEB-2006
Media Type: DVD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #183 in DVD
• Brand: BALE,CHRISTIAN
• Released on: 2005-10-18
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 140 minutes

Amazon.com
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?

Cowritten 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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From The New Yorker
And ends with a whimper. Christopher Nolan, working with a screenplay that he wrote with David S. Goyer, has attempted a literal-minded myth of creation. The orphaned young Bruce Wayne (a gloomy Christian Bale) undergoes an initiation in some nameless Asian snow-capped mountains, where he's trained by a morally ambiguous adjunct (Liam Neeson) to a shadowy ninja vigilante leader (Ken Watanabe). Neeson, wearing a pointy little beard, keeps knocking Bale down as he says such things to him as "To conquer fear you must become fear." The screenplay sounds as if it were written after a course in self-realization taken on Santa Monica Boulevard, and the direction is both pompous and cheesy, with ridiculous plot developments and lots of whirling movement shot so close that we can't really see anything. Gotham is no longer a malignant paradise of evil; it's just dark. With Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine wasted in poorly written roles as Batman's allies.-David Denby -David Denby
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

Best Batman to Begin with on Blu Ray!
Great Movie! Best on Hi-Def 1080p
Blu-ray quality was no dissapointment,
watching Batman Begins feels like returning
to the big screen cinemas but only with better and sharper
video quality. Uncompressed audio came in too as a blessing in disguise.
Prologue to the "The Dark Knight" is definitely an added bonus feature
to view it first in High-Def before the sequel reaches on Blu-Ray too.
A must to be added in any collection.:)

fall short of my expectations
I'm looking forward to see the visual quality the same like as "Casino Royal". But, this film has fallen short of my expectations. The qulity of visual is so little bit better than DVD. But,"Dark Night" trailer would be help soothe my nerves. This trailer has a very shrpness and excellent visual side. So, I look forward to wait the release of "Dark Night".
Anyway, This film has a ordinary sound, visual and so on.
If you would be a crazy BATMAN fan, you must be purchase this title. But, If you were not, I would not recommand to buy this disc.

Movie: 4.75/5 Picture Quality: 3.25~4.5/5 Sound Quality: 4.75/5 Extras: 4/5
Version: U.S.A / Region Free
Format: Blu-ray
VC-1 BD-50
Running time: 2:20:02
Movie size: 23,79 GB
Disc size: 35,11 GB
Average Video Bit Rate: 13.69 Mbps

English Dolby TrueHD - 1551Kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 16-bit (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps)
English / Japanese / French / Portuguese / Spanish DD 640 Kbps
Subtitles : English / Japanese / Chinese / French / Korean / Portuguese / Spanish

The Dark Knight IMAX Prologue (Picture Quality: 4.5/5)
VC-1
Running time: 0:06:37
Movie size: 1,23 GB
Average video bit rate: 22.91 Mbps
DD AC3 5.1 640Kbps

#"Genesis of the Bat" (SD, 15 minutes)
#"Batman: The Journey Begins" (SD, 14 minutes)
#"Path to Discovery" (SD, 14 minutes)
#"Saving Gotham City" (SD, 13 minutes)
#"Shaping Mind and Body" (SD, 13 minutes)
#"Gotham City Rises" (SD, 13 minutes)
#"Cape and Cowl" (SD, 8 minutes)
#"Batman: The Tumbler" (SD, 14 minutes)
#Still Gallery (SD)
#Confidential Files (SD)
#MTV Special: "Tankman Begins" (SD)
#Theatrical Trailer (HD)


Format: HD DVD
VC-1 HD-30
Running time: 2:19:54
Movie size: 19,85 GB
Disc size: 26,63 GB
Average Video Bit Rate: 13.70 Mbps
Dolby TrueHD 5.1 16-bit English
DDPlus 5.1 640Kbps English