Mad Dog Movie Reviews

Batman Begins (2005)

(4 Mad Dogs)

Starring: Christian Bale (Newsies) as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Michael Caine (Jaws: The Revenge) as Alfred, Liam Neeson (Krull) as Ducard, Gary Oldman (from the TV movie “Jesus” in which Jeremy Sisto was Jesus, I need to see this one) as Jim Gordon, Cillian Murphy (from the EPIDEMIC not zombie but EPIDEMIC flick 28 Days Later) as Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow and finally some stupid Scientology bitch who has herpes on her lip (Dawson’s Crap) as an annoying bitch.

It is amazing what you can do when you get a cast that works perfectly for the story. Instead of going for the biggest star to play our main hero the Director gets Christian Bale who has a great track record and he proceeds to knock the ball out of the park! Seriously, this is the best Batman movie yet and even though there is less Batman in this then in past movies it still works.

This movie is being billed as a prequel but I am hoping it launches its own set of movies that will include the likes of The Joker, Penguin, Catwoman and even Robin. For what it is though, it worked really well in not having the huge hitters and instead going with Scarecrow and Ra’s Al Ghul. It was just a really well done and well acted movie.

Go see this movie now and if you have already seen it go again. What else is even out there anyway?