Certainly not cliché.......

Rating: 9/10 (20 July 2012)

When I read batman for the first time, I was awestruck by the complexity of the character of Bruce Wayne/batman as well as the storyline build around it.
I saw the older versions of attempts to recreate the magic of his allure in form of movies, but according to me they seemed to mock the very basis of Batman.
When Christopher Nolan took this mantle it was a steep challenge, because :
a) every story has a beginning as well as an end, and even though in graphic novels the end for the batman has been tried in many cases, it seem to be ill-fitting to recreate on screen
b) to incorporate the various characters and attach them to the story of batman and yet not lose the sight of the goal
c) in comics, issues come and the next month, there is another one, so basically it is in the form of a saga, yet we have to accept that here it is actually "the life story of batman/Bruce Wayne
Hats off to Christopher Nolan to get over these challenges and then some.......
Bottom line :
DIE HARD COMIC BOOK FANS OF BATMAN MAY FEEL BETRAYED BY THE LACK OF RESEMBLANCE OF THE ORIGIN STORY OF SOME CHARACTERS, SO MY ADVICE TO THEM IS TO CONSIDER THIS STORY LINE AS AN "ELSEWORLD" STORY (SOMETHING WHICH I DECIDED AT THE TIME OF BATMAN BEGINS)
FOR EVERYONE ELSE - NEVER BEFORE HAS A CHARACTER BEEN ADAPTED FROM COMIC BOOKS AND PRESENTED SO BEAUTIFULLY IN THE WAY IT HAS BEEN PRESENTED BY NOLAN. MY GUESS IS YOU MAY WANT TO GO TO A BOOK STORE AFTER WATCHING IT...... A BIG THUMBS UP