Do comic book movies count? Screw it, they do
I like the Nolan batman movies, I really do but I'll be the first one to point out that I dont think they got Bruce Wayne properly in the trilogy. How they messed up? Simple
They made him too normal.
Now yes, being Batman by itself isnt normal but I mean the psychological aspect of being Batman for Bruce. The fact of the matter is that Bruce is suppose to the "mask" while Batman is the "real" persona, something that the DCAU and even Snyderverse understood. This man doesnt use a suit to fight crime, this man plays playboy at day just so he can resume his "life crusade" at night.
There was no sense of ocassional "blurring" the line between the man and the bat, closest thing (and this is hard to catch) is when Bruce chokeholds Harvey when the Joker invades the fundraiser party, he tells Racheal that they're here and for her to hide in the Batman voice while not being in the suit (even tho she knows he is Batman). But outside of that very specific example, we dont see much of that struggle and dynamic, sure, it is TOLD to us it is a thing but we never truly see much evidence of it.
There is no moment where we get the energy of this scene
or this one
Bruce knows that being Batman isnt good for him but he cant quit it, both out of a selfless sense of justice and a selfish addiction to the feeling of being his "real" self.
Not Nolan Bruce, by the second movie he already wants to retire and only sticks to his role because Harvey Dent was corrupted and the exposure of which would undo everything the Dent Act stood for. It is noble, yes, and that nobility and selflessness is something Batman would do but the fact he wanted to leave it all behind to ride into the sunset with Racheal (who, in retrospect, was kind of a meh love interest) just isnt Batman. Bruce has already demonstrated an intense difficulty in building romantic attachments, especially if said attachments would involve him dropping the cowl, because to do so would give up an essential part of himself (and again, most stories do recognize thats not healthy but alas) and Racheal says that she has picked Dent because Bruce couldnt quit being Batman but, really, this is mostly told and not shown, especially since we have SEEN Bruce wanting to quit to be with her, he just wanted to have a "replacement" first, gesh, how "obsessed" of him, huh?
So while I do like the trilogy for the good it does, and trust me, there is a lot of good, I'll always say that it does have one of the weakest Bruce Wayne, at least in terms of his relationship with the cowl.
