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BATMAN : The Beginning

Finally managed to catch ze much talked-about movie starring a brand new Bruce Wayne. Yes it took quite hell of a long wait to see him in his Batsuit attire, a whole 1hr 10mins at least. Then again, this was titled as Batman: The Begining, therefore the focus was more on the early years of how Bruce Wayne came to be Batman. Yes Christian Bale does look delicious as Bruce Wayne. Not too broody and emo as Val Kilmer, not too ageing playboy like George Clooney and not too short with a wide forehead like Michael Keaton. But it'd be better if he kept his moustache n stubbles throughout as Batman, a more rugged, manly-cowboyish Bruce Wayne. Aint it cool to see the chin of Batman full of a bushy beard and a thin fine moustache.

The all too familiar tale of how Bruce's parents were killed was re-enacted here more vividly as to compared the version in the first installment of the Batman movies. A down-and out street thug, tho i cant recall his name, had murdered both parents out of desperation. We are also introduced as to how his fear of bats came about, after falling down a well after playing sembunyi2.

And his fighting abilities were honed by rubbing shoulders with the elitist League of Shadows n undergoing gruelling trainings that would make our Tekong counterparts cringe. Under the tutelag of Qui-Gon Jinn, oopps, wrong story, imagine a Jedi Bruce Wayn-obi? I meant under the guidance of Ducard, he trained with the League Of Shadows, the CEO being Ra's Al-Ghul, played by Ken Watanabe who interestingly i found out in a trivia that he doesnt blink. Hope that was useful.

And so Bruce wants out of the gang after learning their plans of destroying Gotham after the city has been so filled with crime and corruption it should no longer cease to exist. Talk abt being extremist. Geez. He does get out, by killing the Lao Da (big boss) himself and saving Qui-Gonn, i mean Ducard's arse. And so he returns back to the city he had turned his back against to fight crime under the persona of Batman. See the transformation ala Spiderman 1 when we see different variations of the early stages of the character until he settles with the final look.

The villains this time round is Scarecrow and Ducard himself. A bit of a common theme for Batman to have his hands full with at least 2 villains, dating back the previous 2 Batty movies with Two-Face and Riddler and Poison Ivy n Mister Arnold Freeze. For saving his arse, this mofo comes back to finish off Batman. Such gratitude. And Scarecrow is this villain who works as a psychiatric doctor by day, and a psychiatric patient by nite. His character wasnt developed entirely, bits of pieces here n there. But hell his costume sucks. His Scarecrow mask was cool, but that Hugo Boss suit? C'mon. I know you yuppie and all but must change outfit lah. The evil plan this round is rather complex, you know even i myself got lost in it. Basically i only know they need to vaporize all the water for the drugs to take effect. And as said, the Scarecrow dude wasnt developed fully. We didnt see how he became scarecrow, probably some disgruntled quack doctor who was blacklisted by the Doctors Association.
But i love the special effects of the movie, when one gets, well, 'high'. Everytin you see is throbbing and you cant see the person's eyes and they'd be in red or sumtin. Very cool evil effects.

Now the Batmobile. Yes for this episode, the Batmobile has a name of its own. The Tumbler. Previous installments has the Batmobile to be very sleek and stylo-mylo lah, can move vertically up a building all. This one is more for practicallity. A cross between a tanker n a racer, proves to be very hardy and fast too. I like very much. This car is gonna be the next thing on the wish list of those rappers with their Hummers. You gotta pimp this ride.

Overall, this was an excellent movie. Second best movie this year, only behind Revenge of the Sith of course. And casting Christian Bale as the caped crusader, wise choice sir, wise choice. Tho i cant help tinking that he looks like the love-child of Christopher Reeves (the real Superman) and Tom Crusie (the really short man). Seriously, he looks a lot like them. It's kinda weird to be seeing 'Clark Kent' dumping his Superman garments for Batman. Geez. Maybe it's just me.

4 / 5 char kueys! Yummmmmm!