This takes and builds on the wonderful Batman begins. For a movie this big to actually meet, and go a little bit beyond your expectations really takes a great movie. This movie is a bit more gritty, tricky, and keeps a running theme of moral choices, and delimas. Well paced action adds to the storys feel. Most of the action seemed like it had a purpose, it fit in with what I was expecting to happen, and helped the story along. We've seen Batman, Joker, and Two Face before, in other places and told in different ways. This telling of them is now my favorite.