Batman Begins
“Evil fears the knight.”
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.
How Batman Begins compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of The Dark Knight, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #3 of 3
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 27%
- Share of the series audience
Batman Begins (2005) is the lowest-rated of the 3 rated films in The Dark Knight series, at 7.7/10 on TMDB against a series average of 8.0/10.
It is the film that started the series, 7 years before the most recent entry, The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
Its 23,172 TMDB ratings are 27% of the 84,823 cast across the series.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for The Dark Knight, comparing all 3 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.
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Batman Begins is film 1 of 3. See the complete watch order.