I'd just like to say that Christopher Nolan had a lot of pressure on him to make a film better than Batman Begins and Heath Ledger had to revive the Joker character that Jack Nicholson did such a great job as and they both passed with flying colors. My only criticism for the movie is the terrible casting of Maggie Gyllenhaal because she never really connected with the audience partly because she did a bad job, she's hideous, and the audience was never able to connect with her because her presence seemed absent. Man she is ugly. Also Christian Bale didn't execute like he normally does. Everything else = amazing. Definitely leaves more than just a summer blockbuster taste in the mouth.