Batman Begins

The plot
The eight-year-old Bruce Wayne falls into a cave, where he encounters a swarm of bats. Having developed a fear of bats, he urges his parents to leave an opera featuring bat-like creatures. Outside they are robbed by Joe Chill, who kills his parents. Although Chill is later arrested, the young kid blames himself for his parents' murders.
The years past by and Bruce returns to Gotham City, wanting to kill Chill, whose prison sentence is being suspended in exchange for testifying against mobster Carmine Falcone. Before he can act, a woman posing as a reporter kills Chill for Falcone. Bruce tells his childhood friend Rachel Dawes about his plan, and she expresses disgust for his disregard for justice. Bruce confronts Falcone, who tells him that he is ignorant of the nature of crime, so Bruce decides to travel the world to understand the criminal mind. After nearly seven years, he is detained for theft in a prison, where he meets Henri Ducard. Ducard invites Bruce to join an elite group, the League of Shadows, led by a certain Ra's al Ghul. Wayne is freed and begins his training with the League, who secretly intend to use him to destroy Gotham. Bruce completes his training with the League, also overcoming his childhood fear of bats in the process. However, when he is ordered to kill a villian, he refuses and  by setting the building on fire he can escape, killing Ra's at the same time. Bruce rescues Ducard from the wreckage and leaves him at a nearby village.
Bruce Wayne returns to a Gotham City ruled by Falcone, and plots a one-man war against the city's corrupt system. He seeks the help of Rachel, now an assistant district attorney, and police sergeant Jim Gordon, who helped him after his parents' murder. After returning to Wayne Enterprises Bruce is able to acquire a prototype armored car which bacomes the Bat-mobile and an experimental armored suit.
In his first night, he disrupts a drug shipment, and leaves Falcone tied to a searchlight, forming a makeshift Bat-Signal. He also disrupts an assassination attempt on Rachel, leaving her with evidence against a judge on Falcone's payroll. While investigating the drugs in the shipment, Batman is stunned by psychopharmacologist Dr. Jonathan Crane, who sprays him with a powerful hallucinogen. Bruce's butler Alfred rescues Bruce, who uses an anti-toxin developed by Fox to save him. Crane later poisons Rachel after showing her that the toxin, which is harmful in vapor form, is being piped into the city water supply. Batman saves her and attacks Crane with his own poison. When the police arrive at Arkham to arrest Crane, Batman escapes with Rachel in the Batmobile. After giving the antidote to Rachel, he gives her two vials of it for Gordon – one to save himself and another to make it all the people in Gotham.
During his birthday party at his house, Bruce is confronted by a group of League of Shadows ninjas led by Ducard, who is the real Ra's al Ghul, the man killed earlier was a only a decoy. Ra's, who had been conspiring with Crane the entire time, plans to destroy Gotham by distributing the toxin using Gotham's water supply, and vaporizing it with a microwave-emitter stolen from Wayne Enterprises.They set fire to Wayne Manor. At the last minute, Bruce escapes the fire with Alfred's help. Batman then aids the police in a battle against  criminals, including Crane, now calling himself "Scarecrow", whom the League set free.  Batman reveals his identity to Rachel and then battles Ra's aboard a train, where Ra crashes to the ground and perishes in the resulting explosion.
Following the battle, Batman becomes a public hero, however, he loses Rachel who doesn’t want the stress of going out with a superhero. Finally, Gordon calls on Batmans help to solve a case where a criminal has left  Joker playing cards at the crime scene. Batman offers his help.
 
Cast

Christian Bale as Batman is outstanding. Michael Caine is perfect as the butler Alfred and Liam Neeson is brilliant as Merlyn. The female lead role Rachel Daws is played by Katie Holmes. The film also has excellent supporting roles filled by renowned stars such as Rutger Hauer, Morgan Freeman and Cilian Murphy.

Prizes and Reviews

Batman Begins received nominations for the Oscar and BAFTA, but could not win in any category. The psychological profundity was unanimously praised, but also the resulting clumsiness of the film criticized. Especially towards the end of the movie turns into a magnificent spectacle, but is too loud and the visual violence is high, as the story doesn’t keep up. At the cinemas Batman Begins was a great success and played in 372 million U.S dollars.