Batman Begins

I started off with the intent to see Mr. and Mrs. Smith but Sarah informed us that the movie sucked so Liz, Sarah and I went to see this movie instead and I'm glad we did. For starters, we have a star-studded cast including Christian Bale (Treasure Island, Newsies, American Psycho, Equilibrium), Michael Caine (Zulu, Alfie-original, The Italian Job-original, A Bridge Too Far, The Muppet Christmas Carol), Liam Neeson (The Mission, Schindler's List, Michael Collins, Kinsey), Morgan Freeman (Driving Miss Daisy, Glory, Robin Hood Prince of Theives, Unforgiven, Shawshank Redemption, Seven, Amistad, Million Dollar Baby, Unleashed), Katie Holmes (Pieces of April), Gary Oldman (Dracula, True Romance, Leon, The Fifth Element), Cillian Murphy (28 Days Later, Intermission, Cold Mountain), and Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai). See? I said it was star-studded I read a review earlier today of said movie that talked about what a crappy film this was. Apparently the good actors just didn't quite make it good, there was action but it was full of dead spots, blah blah blah. I didn't see any of the bad things I read about in this movie. I really believe that Christopher Nolan has resurrected the Batman movies - especially after a string of such bad ones. This one definately rocked. I think this was also the first Batman movie to explain the origins of Bruce Wayne. Liam Neeson did an awesome job as well as Gary Oldman, one of the few films where he's not the bad guy. I didn't quite recognize Ken Watanabe, but his voice immediately gave him away. Then we have good ol Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Christian Bale. If you like Equilibrium, you're definately going to love this one. I think this movie will appeal to the comic lovers, the action lovers and the Batman lovers. It's definately way more serious than the "Holy Swiss Cheese Batman!!!!" TV series, but fake and unreal like other comic hero movies. This is also a movie that should keep the interest of older kids and adults. There's not really much swearing and other than people getting the crap kicked out of them by Batman, there's not much else to deter people from watching this film for content. I rate this as a must see and it will probably end up on my top 10 list at the end of the year.