Pretty good. The best of the Batman films, absolutely.

Rating: 8/10 (30 October 2005)

Batman is dark. They accepted that darkness, and didn't protect us with camp. It is the tale of a man who decides that it's his business who's good and who's bad. That makes him a superman in the Nietzschean sense. We haven't had a good history with that. A man who was "to the manor born," our age old natural betters.
Nolan and company tackled that head on in this origin story, and I'm glad. This Batman knows that there is no morally pure choice. He spends considerable time naval starring.
They also accepted just how Freudian the whole Batman story is. This is a man who is stuck, unable to move beyond a tragic, bloody, defining event; a moment when his parents, powerful in their own realm, were shown as absolutely impotent in the shadow side. His rage at that moment fuels him; his inability to move beyond it freezes him. The very weapon the bad guys plan to use to accomplish their nefarious ends harks back to that.
Not a perfect film. The big reveal at the end was a little too pat, and I could have done without the supermodels. But a loving retelling of the irreducible core of the most human of superheroes.