Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Batman Begins explores the origins of the Batman legend & the Dark Knight&s emergence as a force for good in Gotham In the wake of his parents& murder disillusioned industrial heir Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice & turn fear against those who prey on the fearful He returns to Gotham & unveils his alter-ego Batman a masked crusader who uses his strength intellect & an array of high tech deceptions to fight the sinister forces that threaten the city Director Christopher Nolan (Memento) helms this prequel to the Batman films based on the DC Comics series explaining how Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale American Psycho) the billionaire prince of Gotham whose parents were killed in an alleyway mugging transformed into the crime-fighting superhero With flashbacks to his privileged childhood young Master Wayne as he is called by the butler Alfred (Michael Caine) develops a terrible fear of bats when he falls through the backyard garden into a hidden cave As a young adult Wayne lives among the League of Shadows a mar! tial arts group in the mountains of Asia His leaders Ra&s al Ghul (Ken Watanabe) & Henri Ducard (Liam Neeson) teach him strength endurance & unfortunately evil against which he naturally rebels Returning to Gotham & reinstating himself as a dapper socialite & the rightful heir to his parents& enterprise Wayne quickly devises his secret identity commanding help from the gadgetry expert Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman) With one eye on his childhood playmate Rachel (Katie Holmes Dawson&s Creek) now a beautiful woman & dedicated lawyer & the other on his mission to save Gotham from criminal corruption Batman makes his fledgling debut But when the blue-blooded mastermind Dr Crane (Cillian Murphy Sunshine)taints the water system with a hallucinatory substance Batman realises he has met his first true opponent Special Features&149; Tankman Begins (MTV spoof)&149; Theatrical Trailer&149; Batman &150; The Journey Begins&149; Shaping Mind & Body&149; Gotham City Rises&149; Cape & Cowl&149; Batman &150; The Tumbler&149; Path to Discovery&149; Saving Gotham City&149; Genesis of the Bat&149; Still Gallery&149; The Dark Knight IMAX prologue&149; Reflections on writing Batman Begins with David S Goyer&149; Digital Batman the effects you may have missed&149; Batman Begins Stunts- confidential files Discover facts & story points not in the film