Great review from the Canadian Canoe/Jam website. Considering that the review ends with this sentence:
Welcome home, Bruce. We missed you.
You can guess that it is a favorable one. Jen and I have seen some trailers and it looks good. Here are the first three paragraphs:
Batman Begins completes the superhero movie's transformation into meaningful cinema, a shift that began five years ago with Bryan Singer's play-it-straight X-Men.
It's as if the all-seeing, toga-wearing Watcher from the classic What If? comic books posed this stumper: What if a costumed crimefighter flick treated its subjects completely seriously, and rooted them in an alternate reality that's uncomfortably close to our own?
The answer is Memento director Christopher Nolan's cinematic reboot of the Caped Crusader mythos, a dark, stylish and gritty drama that happens to revolve around a guy dressed as a giant flying mammal. But it might disappoint action movie aficionados hoping for a Spider-Man 2 level of CGI pyrotechnics and pizzazz, and who aren't willing to embrace a meatier, brainier take on the genre.
Jen and I are psyched. This looks to be really really good...
