Batman is back. After four films about the caped crusader, beginning famously in 1989 with Tim Burton's gothic original and ending infamously in 1997 with Joel Schumacher's benippled Batsuit, the franchise suffered a run of aborted reboots until Warners brought in Nolan, 34, the gifted mind behind Memento, whose no-frills approach was just what the bloated Batman saga needed. His pitch: let's start from scratch. Batman Begins, which opens on June 15, rewinds all the way to Bruce Wayne's days as a Princeton graduate and explains exactly how and why he acquired a Batsuit, a cave, a souped-up car and a yen for cracking the skulls of evildoers. The film is also a stylistic rebirth. Nolan's vision doesn't have a trace of comic-book-movie excess; it's a globetrotting epic--Bruce Wayne goes to Bhutan!--in the mold of the adventure movies he grew up adoring.

Read the full article at Newsweek and keep an eye out for our coming review of the new Batman.