1) Batman no longer follows an art-deco design neither in Gotham city nor in the Batman's settings; everything looks rather clean (look the Batman's cave! it looks rather like an empty art gallery). 2) Batman is no longer underground; he represents rather an extension of Mr.Wayne's reactionary attitude, as he is almost in unanimity accepted by the population; he is also omnipresent (even Hong Kong cannot sleep innocently). Batman represents in some way an omnipresent national power and moral reference (look the advise he gives to Mr. Dent); 3) Both Mr. Wayne and Batman no longer show that rather pathetic expression of a man without personal life; the movie is almost exclusively violence, too much free violence. The joker is good, but nothing new to cinema.