Christopher Nolan: Ranking All 9 Of His Movies From Worst To Best

The monumental task facing Christopher Nolan and his team as they geared up for production on Batman Begins cannot be understated. After 1997's atrocious Batman & Robin, the idea of another Batman movie was all but dead in the water, making the Caped Crusader's next cinematic adventure a very delicate undertaking - to say the least.

But fortunately, Nolan's 2005 reboot did the one thing that it desperately needed to do - tonally, it steered as clear from the glossy 90's Batman efforts as it was possible to get, remaining unwaveringly faithful to the Dark Knight while delivering a superhero movie unlike any we'd ever seen; one grounded in reality. Finally, we had a comic-book movie that didn't fall apart as soon as you thought about it for too long.

Even smaller details - like how Batman knows the Tumbler is light enough to drive over a roof without falling through it - are accounted for (he reads from a screen inside the cockpit). Nolan understood that the only way to invest us in a potentially outlandish concept - like a man dressing up as a bat - was to ensure everything felt plausible. And it did!