No words will do this justice

Rating: 10/10 (16 August 2008)

This is... dark, horrifying, frightening... It is nothing short of a masterpiece.
The story and script are magnificent. While leaving the movies, a friend said: "I thought the first movie (note: Meaning Batman Begins) was dark, but it was nothing like this. There was no happy ending anywhere."
Well, is there ever? The darkest, most horrible thing about this movie, is that it's truthful: Good stands frustrated in the face of an evil that cannot be understood. Terrible things happen and we have few other choices but to endure them. We want someone to step up and end it, but few will add "and that someone is me", because we know too well the cost. So we place our hope in the few who are willing to take the risks and make the sacrifices.
"The Dark Knights" cast is wonderful all around, but one must be mentioned in particular, and it is the late Heath Ledger - may he rest in peace. His performance as a villain has no equal. In "The Shining" Jack Nicholson gave me nightmares and in "The Silence of the Lambs" Anthony Hopkins made my skin crawl, but Ledger's Joker surpasses them both. He is simply on a level of his own.
Since I can't find the words to describe what I felt while watching this movie, I'll just give it the 10 out of 10 it deserves.