Batman Begins

Batman Begins

2005: Christopher Nolan, director; starring Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman. The venerable story of Batman, a costumed superhero without supernatural powers, had from its comic book inception in 1939 battled mobsters, but this gritty cinematic reboot puts a Mafia crime family squarely in the middle of the story rather than the science fiction elements that crowd other Batman efforts. Carmine Falcone and the Falcone crime family are a relatively realistic element of Batman Begins and its two critically and commercially successful sequels that make up The Dark Knight Trilogy, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises.