Spoilers removed surgically, at great expense and danger to the patient

New Batman movie: Actually quite good. Surprisingly good. I attribute this in part to excellent actors, piled in great numbers into the cast. Good writing, but for a few call-and-response 'I will speak a Momentous Sentence, and later you will repeat it back to me when it seems chintziest' appearances. Two villains, and yet, this more or less worked. Cinematography sort of uninspired, but not hurtful.
The weakest part was the muddy, confusing fight scenes. They were all of the cut-really-fast-and-hope school, preventing the viewer from getting a good sense of who was where when.
But honestly, it was worth watching. Christian Bale sort of has a bit of Willem Dafoeness about him, albeit slight. Liam Neeson still has the Dignified Yet Ass-Kicking Guru part very much down. Effects were quite good, and even contributed well to some imaginative little bits that I shall not go into.