Being a DC comic fan....I have to be harsh about the way that this movie was depicted. Everyone who tries to capture the feeling that I have about batman is way way off base....even though this move tries to, it fails miserably. I used to watch the campy TV series...and I didn't know better, because everything was campy back then. I really got into the batman comic when he was disabled by Bane. I was enamored by his comeback and the back story related to it. Batman was trained by the best fighters in the world? Holy crap!!! Batman seemed cool after that! I always was into ninja stuff as a kid as was everyone in my generation. I even bought ninja swords and books related to ninja mysticism. But I digress.....Batman became a beacon of human fortitude. Being as good as or better than his meta-human counterparts. And the detective aspect of his life takes me back to all of the Sherlock Holmes novels that I hold dear to my childhood. I will laud the movie and it's director for trying to capture Batmans essence....but I mean some of the crap in this movie annoys me to no end. Was Bruce Wayne ever trained by Ras Al Ghul?....I never read about that....and the whole ninja story was just stupid to me......where is Shiva? she deserved a mention at the very least. Batman is supposed to be a detective.....why does he seem so oblivious?...and that stupid car!!!!! and it jumping from roof to roof.....boooooo!!!! I was happy to see Jim Gorden in it as a newbie....but why did he seem to accept batman so quickly????? It was so contrived and pointless.....but that's Hollywood for you huh.