Less archly stylized than Tim Burton's cheerfully macabre BATMAN (1989) and vastly superior to the vulgar excesses of Joel Schumacher's crudely camp sequels, Christopher Nolan and David Goyer's somber prequel puts the darkness back in the Dark Knight's corner of crime-fighting hell. Set in a Gotham City suspended somewhere between America's past and a future that never was, it tells the story (or more accurately, given the variations spun by an assortment of comic book writers,
a story) of fledgling prince-of-the-city Bruce Wayne's transformation into the haunted Batman. The key elements always remain the same, of course: Little Bruce (Gus Lewis), the much-lov...
Released:
2005
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
140 mins