Rating: PG-13 (intense action violence, disturbing images and some thematic elements)
Length: 140 minutes

Widescreen 2.40:1 Color 1080p High Def

ENGLISH: TrueHD 5.1
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
FRENCH: Dolby Digital 5.1
JAPANESE: Dolby Digital 5.1
PORTUGUESE: Dolby Digital 5.1
SPANISH: Dolby Digital 5.1

Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish

Forget everything you remember from the last four Batman movies (five if you count the silly one from the '60s), Warner Brothers has decided to restart the franchise by starting the story from the beginning and making it a lot darker. You'll see how Bruce Wayne becomes the caped crusader and acquires his wonderful skills and toys to assist him in his fight against crime.

All you have to do is look at the stars in this film (Caine, Freeman, Oldman, Neeson, Haur) to see how serious they were about remaking this franchise and major kudos to Bale for pulling off the starring role. This film is dark and action packed; especially once Wayne becomes Batman. And the villains were real and believable people; not something out of a cartoon.

Katie Holmes is very cute and can act but does anybody believe she's a hardened District Attorney? She looks more like she should be getting ready for her date to pick her up for her High School prom. And don't get into a major hurry to see Batman, almost half the movie is spent on his journey to get to that point Now for my major complaint, the movie is simply too long. Each scene had it's own message for the viewer but these messages could have been combined into individual scenes. If this was a Director's Cut then I'd have no issue with this, but this is a theatrical version and there simply wasn't enough delivered to justify the almost 2.5 hour runtime. After all, how many times do we need to be reminded that Bruce Wayne is afraid of bats?

• "The Dark Knight" IMAX Prologue (In High-Def)
• In-movie Experience
• "Tankman Begins" Featurette
• "Batman - The Journey Begins" Featurette
• "Shaping Mind and Body" Featurette
• "Gotham City Rises" Featurette
• "Cape and Cowl" Feturette
• "Batman - The Tumbler" Featurette
• "Path to Discovery" Featurette
• "Saving Gotham City" Featurette
• "Genesis of a Bat" Featurette
• "Reflections on Writing Batman Begins" Featurette
• "Digital Batman" Featurette
• "Batman Begins Stunts - Confidential Files" Featurette
• Stills Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer

Even though it kind of sounds like I didn't like this movie, I really did. I would have just preferred a version that was 20 minutes or so shorter. Was double-dipping by picking up the Blu-Ray worth it; oh yeah!! This franchise is back in good hands!

Christopher Nolan   [The Dark Knight, Insomnia, Memento, The Prestige]

Christian Bale - Bruce Wayne / Batman

[American Psycho, The Dark Knight, Equilibrium, The Prestige, Reign of Fire, Shaft (2000), Swing Kids]

Michael Caine - Alfred

[A Bridge Too Far, The Battle of Britain, The Dark Knight, Dressed to Kill, The Eagle Has Landed, The Prestige, The Quiet American, Secondhand Lions, Zulu]

Morgan Freeman - Lucius Fox

[Amistad, The Dark Knight, Deep Impact, Dreamcatcher, Glory, Lucky # Slevin, Outbreak, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Se7en, The Shawshank Redemption, The Sum of All Fears, Unforgiven, Wanted]

Rutger Hauer - Earle

[Blade Runner, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dracula III: Legacy, Ladyhawk, Merlin]

Larry Holden - Finch

[Insomnia, Memento]

Katie Holmes - Rachel Dawes

[The Ice Storm, Phone Booth]

Mark Boone Junior - Flass

[2 Fast 2 Furious, 30 Days of Night, Batman Begins, Memento, The Quick and the Dead (1995), Vampires]

Colin McFarlane - Loeb

Cillian Murphy - Dr. Jonathan Crane

[28 Days Later, The Dark Knight, Sunshine]

Gerard Murphy - Judge Faden

[Waterworld]

Liam Neeson - Henri Ducard

[Gangs of New York, The Haunting (1999), K-19: The Widowmaker, Kingdom of Heaven, The Mission, Schindler's List]

Gary Oldman - Jim Gordon

[Bram Stroker's Dracula, The Dark Knight, The Fifth Element, Hannibal, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, JFK, Léon, Lost in Space, True Romance]

Linus Roache - Thomas Wayne

[The Chronicles of Riddick, The Forgotten, Hart's War]

Ken Watanabe - Ra's Al Ghul

[The Last Samurai, Letters from Iwo Jima, Memoirs of a Geisha]

Tom Wilkinson - Carmine Falcone

[The Ghost and the Darkness, The Patriot, Valkyrie]