Rating: Overflowing

Genre: Superhero/drama/action/adventure

Studio: Warner Bros/DC/Legendary Pictures/Syncopy

Cast: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Rutger Hauer and Ken Watanabe

Director: Christopher Nolan

Writers: David S. Goyer and Christopher Nolan

Based on: the DC comics

Producers: Larry Franco, Charles Roven and Emma Thomas

Music by: James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer

Rated: PG-13 for intense action violence, disturbing images and some thematic elements

Release Date: 06/15/08

Favorite Character: Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow

Tagline: This summer, evil fears the knight

Quote: “It’s not who I am underneath, but what I do that defies me.”- Bruce Wayne/Batman

Fun Facts: During the filming in Chicago, a drunk driver crashed into the batmobile because he thought it was an alien spaceship.

The film was inspired by Blade Runner.

The boy Batman was talking to in the alley was Jack Gleeson, an irish actor who portrayed King Joffrey in Game of Thrones.

All the track names in the film’s soundtrack are named after bats (and the first letters of tracks 4-9 are Barbastella, Artibeus, Tadarida, Macrotus, Antrozous and Nycterus spelled ‘BATMAN’).

Summary: The origin story of everyone’s favorite DC superhero as he must save the city from a threat.

The Review: This is why Nolan is one of the finest movie directors of recent times, as the film was one of THE action movie (especially for the diehard Batman fans out there).