Christian Bale is excellent in Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, the best Dark Knight implementation since Keaton and Nicholson. What works in this film is the level of ‘humanity’ that runs throughout- Batman at this point is still just a man, discovering who he is and ultimately fighting himself as much as his physical enemies. (As a bonus the villains are not completely silly, which is quite a departure from the last few movies.)

Katie Holmes is fairly bland but the rest of the cast makes up for it, and though I’m still wanting a bit of an explanation as to Ra’s Al Ghul’s motivation this is still a good movie. A must see for Batman fans and a good place to begin for anyone else.