Batman Begins

2005 Directed by Christopher Nolan

Evil fears the knight.

Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.

Christian Bale Michael Caine Liam Neeson Katie Holmes Gary Oldman Cillian Murphy Tom Wilkinson Rutger Hauer Ken Watanabe Mark Boone Junior Linus Roache Morgan Freeman Larry Holden Gerard Murphy Colin McFarlane Sara Stewart Gus Lewis Richard Brake Rade Šerbedžija Emma Lockhart Christine Adams Catherine Porter John Nolan Karen David Jonathan D. Ellis Tamer Hassan Ronan Leahy Vincent Wong Tom Wu Show All…

Alternative Titles

האביר האפל: באטמן מתחיל, Betmen počinje, Kara Şövalye: Batman Başlıyor, 蝙蝠侠.侠影之谜

crime drama action

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Popular reviews

Review by andrea🌹 ★★★★ 11

i very rarely resonate with middle-aged caucasian men especially pretentious gits like chr*stopher n*lan, but apparently he was so fascinated with cillian murphy's eyes that he kept trying to find reasons for him to remove his glasses in scenes and honestly, that is such a big eternal lifelong mood
Review by Karsten Runquist ★★★ 61

If I took away anything from this movie, it was a greater appreciation for The Dark Knight.
Review by Patrick Willems ★★★½ 22

"Tell them that joke you know." Bruce Wayne doesn't get enough credit for being a funny guy!
Review by mulaney ★★★★

thomas wayne: bruce, why do we fall?
me, screaming: SO WE CAN LEARN TO PICK OURSELVES UP
Review by CinemaClown ★★★★½ 24

Why did the Batman franchise fall? So that it could learn to pick itself up! And it did! IT REALLY DID!!!
After the franchise that began with Tim Burton's Batman in 1989 hit an absolute dead end with Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin in 1997, Warner Bros. decided to wipe the slate clean and start from scratch, all over again. And in their effort to recreate the saga of the Caped Crusader from the ground up with a more realistic approach, they didn't only get everything right but also ended up setting an all-new benchmark for superhero origin stories to follow.
Batman Begins is a complete reboot of the Batman film franchise and has no relation whatsoever with any of the…
Review by dani✨ ★★★½

scarecrow: you look like a man who takes himself too seriously. do you want my opinion? you need to lighten up [sets batman on fire]
me: ICONIC!!!!!!!!
Review by Wood ★★★★ 7

To this day it baffles me why Cillian Murphy isn't more famous.
Review by Coolnilk ★★★★★ 7

Batman Begins to me has always been the underdog of The Dark Knight trilogy. I remember way back when I first saw it, I didn't honestly care for it as I thought it was more on the dreary side of things especially when it comes to the whole superhero genre, but over the years and with this worthwhile revisit, Batman Begins truly is the quintessential Batman film and beats out the first Keaton Batman flick as an origin story by a long shot, at least from my end.
Christian Bale impeccably embodies both the Bruce Wayne and Batman figures from the esteemed comics, and he absolutely is what I envisioned both of them to be on the live-action front. As…
Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 11

83/100
Consistently scurrying with a fiendish backbone of Gothic horror and organic character moments; Batman Begins is a fascinating exploration of fear and the power it holds, both within people and their mutual interactions. It's so interesting how Nolan approaches Bruce Wayne's origin, both in regards to tone and structure. Never has a director, even including Tim Burton, committed so fully to a distinct examination of the iconic billionaire.
Nolan always builds his films like interlocking mechanisms of various forms and shapes, but it is in Batman Begins where that method takes on the presence of a fully-realized world. The murkiness of Gotham City hauntingly correlates to the damaged psyches of their characters, almost as if the crime and sorrow…
Review by Matt Singer ★★★½ 7

Did not remember this feeling so close to the Tim Burton Batman movies, but it does. Bale lumbers around awkwardly in a giant rubber suit, the bad guy wants to gas the city into submission, and Gotham is stylized and nightmarish with giant monorails and a slum called “The Narrows.” That’s not necessarily a criticism or a compliment, merely an observation. Batman didn’t go full Nolan until The Dark Knight.
This has aged nicely, at least up until the big action finale that in no way delivers. The rest is very good. The opening flashes forwards and back are particularly elegant, and the movie is generally much funnier than I remembered, with both Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine supplying an abundance of wry quips.
Review by niceguys ★★★★ 2

I plan to preach about the talents of Cillian Murphy until the day I die
Review by iana ★★★ 7

christian’s batman voice is so funny bye

Recent reviews

Review by katiamarl8 ★★★★½

a classic
Review by hnist ★★★★

I love how the movie really stuck to the whole fear theme and the interactions with ra's al ghul throughout the movie really make it something special. Batman will always be a classic to me.
Review by Peter ★★★★½

90/100

I love this film, one of my favourite superhero movies but I do have a couple of complaints. For example, how it forces its, arguably, mediocre dialogue on you. The first part of the movie isn't necessarily that great either although it still isn't that bad.
Review by Hater of movie titles ★★★★½

Amazing, Batman actually begins in this movie. It takes a while for him to begin, but at least he actually begins.
Review by nicelo ★★★★

I love origin stories in general, so I enjoyed batman begins as well. Liam Neeson is one of my favourite actors, who contributed a big part to that movie.
Review by JAY JAY MODEREA ★★★★

This trilogy of Batman is the best adaptation of Batman in live action that we’ve gotten. This film is good, the way they dealt with Bruce’s upbringing was so dark and I love it.
film good fam
Review by saima rahman ★★★★

this was the film that really got me into superheroes.
Review by allymcconic ★★★½

Revolutionary. Movies have been trying to copy this movie for years.
Review by Kingdomlazza ★★★½

Giving the trilogy another go and this was better than I remember. But also I barely remembered the movie in the first place so that was almost guaranteedZ
Review by Asdfworldwide ★★★★

Much better than I thought
Review by ericsweazy ★★

Not a great movie not a bad movie. I found scarecrow to be a good villain but the hallucination scenes could have been done much better. Somehow watched all three of these movies this week so I feel obligated to rate them all
Review by harsha ★★★★★

i’ve seen this trilogy so many times but i rly wanted to rewatch. when i was little and i watched this for the first time i was scared of cillian murphy...hans zimmer literally laces everything he composes with crack i will never get over how good he is.