GhostAlpha26 said:
It does not canopy or do anything significant to slow them and even if there was a slight flare just before they hit that would do absolutlty nothing. Even when a parachute opens and slows a person down if there is a failure and their is partial canopy in which to slow the person the force at which they hit is often devastating. And falling onto a car is no help, falling into water from ~ 100 feet is like hitting concrete. And I think most people, including kids, realized that everything about Batman is on the "fantastic" side. However, the point is still that he does not act like Batman in this movie and the movie does a poor job of injecting "reality" into the Batman world. The fact still stands, he falls from 20+ stories in his suit and is fine, he falls ~5 stories in his suit and can barely get up.
People in parachutes aren't usually wearing armor either ;) And I'm pretty sure he was somewhat faking not being able to get up after falling 5 stories at the end. Why get up when the bad guy is just going to keep knocking you down? Better to wait for him to come over and get him when he doesn't expect it (similar to Batman getting "shot" in the first movie). Either way, it doesn't bother me that he fell that far and survived. I can think of plenty of other movies that have a lot more problems than one minor scene.
What I was referring to with the Mythbusters thing is the gagdets that look real. Like the wire he uses to lift himself up or go across rooms with. Some of those things at least seemed plausible. Unfortunately, there's nothing commercially available in that size of a package. The best one Mythbusters tested was the cable to turn the car around tight corners. Even with the strongest cable they could find, they only made it about halfway through the turn before the pole (the anchor) got pulled up.