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Batman Begins - Movie Review

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Okay, so my reviews for the Dark Knight Trilogy are long overdue, so here we go. Batman Begins, otherwise known as the C.P.R of a franchise, So when i heard that the director of 'Memento' was going to direct "Batman Begins" I thought 'hmmm, interesting, but it may be just what was required' because lets face it, Batman died in the hands of Joel Schumacher (Director of Batman and Robin,Batman Forever), and now we have Batman again!! So Batman Begins is the story of Bruce Wayne, who after the death/murder of his parents transforms himself from an angry pissed off rich kid to the Batman, and I was really suprised as to how much depth they gave to the characteras in the previous movies I saw him only as a vigilante, end of story. In this movie they show that it goes deeper than that. I mean sure he's a pissed off rich kid, totally but then Liam Neeson who plays Ducard, his trainer gives him a path and trains him to be a ninja, yeah Batman is a ninja, yeah!!! and Ducard teaches Bruce that if you are a vigilante, you can be killed or destroyed, but if you're a symbol, if you're something bigger than that, then you can become "a legend, Mr Wayne". Basically, you don't die, even if you die, you don't die since as you're a symbol, that symbol can be assigned to anyone, it can live on, continue even after the original person( in this case, Bruce Wayne) dies. In the acting of this movie, everybody plays their roles perfectly, there are a lot of people to mention, so here we go : First of all, Oscar winning actor Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman, absolutely perfect, I mean, he had to play three roles in this movie, first, the billionnaire playboy who the city of Gotham thinks him to be,because let's face it, Bruce Wayne's been gone for 7 years training, and suddenly when he, Gotham's rich prince appears back in Gotham, this Batman guy alsy o appears?? I mean, he could be associated to Batman by the public, so in order to clarify all thair do

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