Batman Begins(2005)

PG-13
2h 20m

Release Date: Jun 15, 2005 | Wide

After witnessing his parents' death, billionaire Bruce Wayne learns the art of fighting to confront injustice. When he returns to Gotham as Batman, he must stop a secret society that intends to destroy the city.

Releases

Original Release | Jun 15, 2005

2012 Re-release | Jul 19, 2012

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Total US & Canada:
$206,863,479
Total International
$168,516,083
Total Worldwide:
$375,406,308

Total US & Canada:
$205,343,774
Total International
$168,100,000
Total Worldwide:
$373,443,774

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Director & Top Cast

Christopher Nolan
Director

Christian Bale
Bruce Wayne

Michael Caine
Alfred

Ken Watanabe
Ra's Al Ghul

Liam Neeson
Ducard

Katie Holmes
Rachel Dawes

Gary Oldman

Jim Gordon

Cillian Murphy

Dr. Jonathan Crane

Tom Wilkinson

Carmine Falcone

Rutger Hauer

Earle

Linus Roache

Thomas Wayne

Mark Boone Junior

Flass

Morgan Freeman

Lucius Fox

Larry Holden

Finch

Gerard Murphy

Judge Faden

Colin McFarlane

Loeb

Sara Stewart

Martha Wayne

Gus Lewis

Bruce Wayne - age 8

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: DTS,Dolby Digital,SDDS

Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States,United Kingdom

Language: English,Mandarin

Summaries

Plot Summary

As a child, Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) falls into an abandoned well filled with bats, causing him to develop a phobia. Bruce's father Thomas is a rich industrialist and owner of Wayne Enterprises, who built the monorail for Gotham city to provide cheap transportation for the residents of the city. At the opera with his parents, Bruce becomes unsettled by performers masquerading as bats and asks to leave. Outside, mugger Joe Chill murders Bruce's parents in front of him. Bruce is raised by the family butler, Alfred Pennyworth.14 years later, Chill is granted parole in exchange for agreeing to testify against crime boss Carmine Falcone (Tom Wilkinson). Falcone is the most powerful Mafia boss in Gotham, who shares a prison cell with Joe Chill after he murdered Bruce's parents.Bruce, now a young man, goes to the courthouse intending to shoot Chill, but one of Falcone's assassins does so first. Bruce confides in his childhood friend Rachel Dawes (Katie Holmes), now a Gotham City district attorney, who is disgusted by Bruce's desire for vengeance. Rachel convinces Bruce that the real enemy in Falcone, who is destroying the city of Gotham and things for the masses are worse than ever. Rachel says that Gotham has no chance of survival if the good people do nothing.After confronting Falcone, who says real power comes from being feared, Bruce spends the next seven years traveling the world, training in combat, and immersing himself in the criminal underworld. Bruce hopes of learning skills that will allow him to return to Gotham and free it from the crime and corruption that threatens to consume it.In a Bhutanese prison, he meets Ducard (Liam Neeson), who offers to train him as a ninja of the League of Shadows led by Ra's Al Ghul (Ken Watanabe). Ducard is the leader of the League of Shadows, an ancient society that uses chaos to punish the corrupt and decadent. Ducard tells Bruce the path to get to the HQ of the League of Shadows. Bruce has to climb a grueling and freezing mountain to get to his destination, which is a large castle at the top of the mountain. Ra's Al Ghul tells Bruce that to manipulate the fears of others, he must first learn to master his own fears. Ducard hands Bruce a peculiar blue colored flower, as he asks him about his fears. Bruce is taught to overcome his fear of bats and the overwhelming guilt that he could not avenge his own parents.As he completes his training, Bruce learns of the League's true intentions: to liberate Gotham from the evils that plague it by destroying the city. Bruce rejects the League and its mandate that killing is necessary. He escapes, burning down their temple in the process. Ra's is killed by falling debris, while Bruce saves the unconscious Ducard.Bruce returns to Gotham. While publicly posing as a reckless playboy, he takes an interest in his family's company, Wayne Enterprises, a technology and defense conglomerate run by the unscrupulous CEO William Earle (Rutger Hauer), who intends to take the company public.Bruce meets Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman), a high-ranking Wayne Enterprises employee demoted to working in the company's Applied Science Division, where he conducts advanced studies in biochemistry and mechanical engineering. Lucius introduces him to several of Wayne's experimental prototype technologies, including an armored car and protective bodysuit, which Bruce uses to form his crime-fighting persona, Batman, inspired by his childhood fear, which he has now conquered.As Batman, Bruce intercepts an illegal drug shipment, empowering Sgt. Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and the Gotham police to arrest the previously untouchable Falcone. Gordon is one of the few Gotham City police officers who is not corrupted, who was on duty the night of the murder of Bruce's parents and, in this way, shares a special bond with the adult Bruce and thus with Batman.Meanwhile, a Wayne Enterprises cargo ship is raided and an experimental weapon is stolen, a "Microwave Emitter" that uses microwaves to vaporize an enemy's water supply.Back in Gotham, Falcone and his henchmen are declared mentally unfit for trial and transferred to Arkham Asylum by the corrupt Dr. Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow (Cillian Murphy), who had been using Falcone to import a dangerous hallucinogenic drug that causes severe psychosis.Crane exposes Falcone to the toxin while wearing a burlap mask, driving Falcone mad with fear of the "Scarecrow." While investigating Crane, Batman is also exposed to the drug and is rescued by Alfred and given an antidote by Fox.Rachel goes to Arkham, where Crane reveals that he has been dumping the toxin into Gotham's water supply before dosing her with it. She is rescued by Batman, who exposes Crane to the toxin and interrogates him. Crane reveals that the toxin is harmless in liquid form and only dangerous if inhaled. Batman inoculates Rachel and gives her two vials of the antidote, one for Sgt. Gordon and one for mass production.At his birthday celebration at Wayne Manor, Bruce is confronted by Ducard, who reveals himself to be the real Ra's Al Ghul. Bruce fakes a drunken tirade to get rid of his guests, leaving him alone with Ra's and his ninjas. Ra's reveals the League's plan to destroy Gotham: having stolen the Microwave Emitter and conspired with Crane, they intend to vaporize the city's toxin-riddled water supply, creating mass hysteria and violence.The League sets fire to the mansion and Bruce is nearly trapped inside but is saved by Alfred (Michael Caine). As the League begins unleashing the toxin, Batman rescues Rachel from a drug-induced mob and reveals his true identity to her. He entrusts Sgt. Gordon with the Batmobile and pursues Ra's, who is using Gotham's train system to deliver the weapon throughout the city. Batman confronts Ra's on the train and escapes just as Gordon uses the Batmobile to destroy the elevated tracks, leaving Ra's to die in the ensuing crash.Batman becomes a public hero, but simultaneously loses Rachel, who cannot bring herself to love both Bruce and Batman. Bruce buys a controlling stake in the now publicly-traded Wayne Enterprises, fires Earle, and replaces him with Fox. Jim Gordon is promoted to Lieutenant. He shows Batman the new Bat-Signal and mentions a new costumed criminal who leaves Joker cards at crime scenes. Batman promises to investigate, and disappears into the night.

Storyline

When his parents are killed, billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne relocates to Asia, where he is mentored by Henri Ducard and Ra's Al Ghul in how to fight evil. When learning about the plan to wipe out evil in Gotham City by Ducard, Bruce prevents this plan from getting any further and heads back to his home. Back in his original surroundings, Bruce adopts the image of a bat to strike fear into the criminals and the corrupt as the icon known as "Batman". But it doesn't stay quiet for long. — konstantinwe As a child, a young Bruce Wayne witnesses the death of his parents at the hands of a crazed criminal. As an adult, Bruce travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice. He lives amongst the boroughs of criminals and thieves in central Asia. Eventually, he meets a mysterious figure named Ra's Al Guhl and joins his gang called the League of Shadows. Using his training, he is able to defeat his trainer. Finally meeting up with his estate caretaker Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne returns to Gotham. There, he becomes the new head of Wayne Enterprises. Together, with the help of the C.E.O. of the Wayne Enterprises Applied Sciences division, a man name Lucius Fox, he dons a new persona: Batman. As Batman takes on the criminals and organized crime underworld of Gotham, a sinister new underbelly of the city is exposed, and a new class of criminal is born. Will Batman be the one to stop them all, or does Gotham need a hero with a face? — halo1k Bruce Wayne, who experiences the death of his parents at a very young age, relocates to Asia and trains with his mentors, Henri Ducard and Ra's Al Ghul in fighting injustice. He returns to a crime-ridden Gotham and with the help of his old butler and estate caretaker, Alfred, the C.E.O. of Wayne Enterprises Applied Science Division Lucius Fox, he dons a new persona, Batman, to strike fear into the hearts of the criminals and the corrupt. With the help of rising cop Gordon, and the Assistant District Attorney, and Bruce's love interest Rachel Dawes, he is able to take down the Mafia Don Falcone, and the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan Crane a.k.a. The Scarecrow. With Ra's Al Ghul's return with his evil plan to destroy Gotham by inducing fear into the hearts of the people, Batman must defeat his mentor once again so as to bring peace in Gotham. — srijanarora-152-448595 After the death of his parents, a rich middle-aged male learns martial arts. He returns to his home city to begin to fight as a vigilante and defend his home city from criminals who want to destroy the city and drive everyone to madness and make them lose their minds. — RECB3 1 more All