An exciting foray into Nolan's Batman Universe. Bruce Wayne's origin story is refreshing, but more intriguing is the setting of the run-down, dreary, and insidious Gotham - a city that clearly is in need of hope. This first part of the trilogy provided characters to root for, and left me looking forward to how Gotham will change, or not, in the Dark Knight. The flow of the movie made it a fun and easy watch, stoking at suspense and providing a decent payoff. However, in the light of the trilogy, Batman Begins has low replay value, and lacks a certain degree of thoughtfulness that is expected from Nolan. Liam Neeson's Ra's Al Ghoul is a rather flat character at the end of the day, and the cartoonish main conflict fails to match the gloomy tones of the movie. Scarecrow had great potential but I feel that the movie failed to capitalize, as weak as he ended up rather inconsequential. In all, can be seen as just another good action movie, as it lacks the creativeness and sense of masterpiece we see in TDK. Strong 6 to a light 7.