Batman Begins ~repack~

“Compassion is a wound you cannot afford,” Ducard said, firelight dancing in his dead eyes.

“I’m not going to kill you,” the Batman said. “You’re going to tell them. Every criminal in Gotham. The shadows used to belong to you. Now they belong to me .” Batman Begins

Today, looking back through the lens of The Dark Knight (which is a crime epic) and The Dark Knight Rises (a war epic), Batman Begins stands apart. It is the only film in the trilogy that is purely about Batman . There is no Joker stealing the show, no Bane breaking the bat. It is a tight, 140-minute origin story that takes itself seriously enough to matter, but never so seriously that it becomes dull. “Compassion is a wound you cannot afford,” Ducard

Falcone fired into the dark. A shape moved—too fast, too wrong . Then the cigar was plucked from his lips. He looked down. The thing was kneeling before him, head cocked, lenses reflecting his own sweating face. Every criminal in Gotham