if you are coming into the series and have not really read any of the dark knight comics, batman, ANY of the frank miller graphic novels then yes the movie was awesome! however, if you are an AVID reader then this movie wasn't all that it was cracked up to be. Bane's back story ended up being the main vileness and it was like 5 different series all meshed into one.

Chris Nolan decided to take bits and pieces of EVERY story line and try to fit it into one 2.7 hour movie. SOOOOO much more could have been done with this film.

1. there is supposedly a live action on Akira in the works, which just by reading the plot it is already going to suck

2. every anime that i have loved and that has had an attempt to make it live action has ALWAYS ended up sucking

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