Consider it revenge for 'Prince of Thieves' consisting entirely of Americans except for the baddy.
One of the things I always enjoyed about the character of Batman was his self-made, obsessive nature. This idea that he spent his entire life transforming his mind and body into this crimefighting machine, and that he did it almost completely on his own, with help from a select few people. In Batman Begins, Bruce Wayne is a relatively normal human being until he's about 20 or so, where he runs off to Asia to find himself, then he comes back to town and makes friends with Morgan Freeman. Who just HAPPENS to have a spare super-suit lying around. It sort of detracts from the grandness of Batman, that larger-than-life thing he had going. I like the idea of Batman meticulously crafting this persona, hand-making every gadget and going over every clue. I don't really get that sense from the movies.
