Quick review: Whoooooohhhooo!!!!!
Saw it last night with Chuck and Les. We had to really dig and nitpick to come up with anything wrong with it. The strongest part of the story is the first hour or so, going into the backstory and origin of Batman. Casting was dead-on. Bale is a great Bruce Wayne/Batman, and Michael Caine might have been even better as Alfred. The "universe" that this Batman movie is in was completely different than the previous movies - a lot of work went into making everything seem, at the least, plausible. Once you see what Wayne goes through, and what he has available to him, there's no suspension of disbelief to get to the point where he dresses ...