This is a darker (in both senses) Batman film. It explores how Bruce Wayne came to be a crime fighter. This involves some mystical training in China and a supply of gadgets from his company's labs. Christian Bale is a cool customer and backed up by some major actors (Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman and Liam Neeson). The baddies are really bad and not as comic as in the other films. The action is spectacular in what I could make out in the mostly night scenes.
Some of the city scenes were shot in the enormous Cardington hangers a few miles from where I live.
