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Rating: 4/10 (4 January 2009)

Well I had anticipated that it would be something like this, with all the hype about this movie. I gotta give one thing to them though, it was well commercialized, which is probably one of the causes for it's super god status.
Now going into the movie, the first flaw that caught my eye, the most, was during the first 10 min of the movie when Batman takes a hard bang on a concrete wall trying to climb a van and then the dog bites he gets. Both of which were shown later in a scene where Bruce is stitching and mending his wounds. Now fast forward to the part where the Joker drops Rachel from a skyscraper and Batman plunges like he was Superman, both take a fall on a car and both are absolutely fine?! Come ON ! at least put some rope action or something, also why doesn't Batman go back to the top floor where all the guests are left with the "deranged" Joker? Or is it that Joker just said "oh Batman is gone the scene is over I should leave too?" ridiculous!
So i relentlessly made myself forget all that , but then i realized that Nolan and Ledger were both too busy trying to darken the joker character to a point where they forgot that the movie is a batman movie and Alfred is a lot more important in his life than a butler. and that because it is a batman movie there should have been glimpses of Batman's dead parents, well at least once cause that is the reason he is Batman/ the dark knight. Adding more fuel to fire where was his bat-craft ? when he went to Hong Kong to kidnap the mob boss , why would he spend billions on a cargo plane and not on his own bat-craft, I failed to see the logic - cargo planes are slower and easily traceable where as the bat-craft is fast and can beat radars. I would call this missed opportunity for the movie. And then came the sonar phone thing now Batman said that the technology allowed them to monitor 2 or 3 million phones, does Nolan know how big a server you would require to do that? Given that you had access to all security protocols from alien ware. Instead they stuck in about 600 little LCD screens and 4 or 5 servers. in my opinion lame.
Now comes the joker character : 1. he should have laughed hysterically all the time, if ledger had managed to do that, then it would have been perfect. he basically missed the craziness of the real joker. 2. Joker does not go around telling people how he got the scar . but it is true that he makes up a different story each time he says it, but this is when he is asked about it, he doesn't advertise it! even if i take it for what they did in the movie i think it was way overdone, joker seemed like a Joker merchandise salesman to attract kids buying the new joker t-shirts "Why so Serious?" and crap and by God it has worked, but that is not what makes great movies.
Now few things they did get right : joker and batman confrontation at the precinct that was the best scene of the whole movie, joker's dialogue was straight from the comic books, but again minus the laughter. Gordon's character, as in his importance in Gotham was well portrayed although, it was very rushed. - forgivable.. Harvey Dent was good but two face lacked the intensity. over all i would say the movie wasn't made for the Batman comic fans but more for the people who like blockbusters. You should watch it cause its fun to watch and you will realize all the opportunities it had to make it an actual masterpiece in the comic book movie adaptation genre. Now looking forward to watchmen, superman: man of steel and the next Batman which could be Arkham Asylum !