Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins

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The League of Shadows is an organization determined to bring about its version of "moral order" and "justice" through terrorist attacks against targets it identifies as corrupt, decadent, and evil. Gotham is the ultimate target of a plan to launch a bio-chemical attack and so destroy what the League believes is the source of that corruption and evil.

Early on in the movie, Bruce Wayne finds their message alluring and actually trains under one of its leaders. But, the moment of truth comes when he is required to decapitate a "criminal" as an initiation ritual. Justifiably finding this abhorrent, Bruce Wayne rejects the League.

Now, standing in the way of the League's aims is this billionaire, spoiled playboy, who mobilizes his captalist empire and military industrial complex to combat the terrorists. While Gotham's own government is rife with corruption and embroiled in the very criminal enterprises that threaten its existence, Batman/Bruce Wayne acts unilaterally to thwart the plans of the League. In classic comic book style, the corrupt officials of Gotham oppose their hero Batman and even come to characterize him as a loose canon, vigilante, and a threat to the city. They are, in fact, unaware that Batman/Bruce Wayne is the only thing standing between them and their destruction at the hands of the League.

Still, Batman/Bruce Wayne finds allies in a childhood friend and Gotham D.A. played by Katie Holmes and one good cop, Sgt. Gordon, played by Gary Oldman. With their help, Batman/Bruce Wayne succeeds in bringing down a mafia-like kingpin and ultimately thwarts the League's attempt to destroy Gotham.

In a closing scene, now Lt. Gordon comments that Batman's actions to thwart the attacks are but one battle in a war to restore justice to Gotham. Significantly, Gordon also observes that by confronting the evil, Batman has escalated the conflict and thereby taken a grave risk. The criminals will intensify their activities and so threaten the lives of Gotham's citizens. Yet, it is clear that Batman and Gordon are committed to the mission to save Gotham from its enemies---internal and external.

Sound familiar, anyone?