Hyped up

Rating: 6/10 (4 August 2008)

After reading several reviews hyping up this movie as IMDb's best of all time, I had to se it. As with most movies i have high expectations to, I get disappointed after seeing them. This is no exception.
There are several thing that bugs me in this movie. First the hangover whiskey voice of the batman character is annoying. It would be better if he spoke like Bruce Wayne. We know its him anyway.
Second I think its to long. Instead of introducing yet another character (Harvey Dent/ twoface) they could have cut him and at least 30 minutes of the film.
Third, I was waiting to se more of the joker character.
I also noticed really lamer editing at the end of the movie. After twoface dies, batman tells Gordon (Gary Oldman) that he takes the blame for killing the innocent people and cops. Then the movie drifts of to where Gordon holds a press conference telling everybody what happened to Harvey Dent. Then suddenly they cut back to the same scene with batman and gordon at the scene where twoface just died.
For me this movie is far from the best movie ever made (like many IMDb reviews states). To mention a few, Full Metal Jacket, A Clockwork Orange, Requiem for a Dream, Scilence of the Lambs, The Shawshank Redemption, Schindler's List, Goodfellas, Fight Club, The Shining and many more beat this movie by lightyears.
The only thing stopping me from giving it 4 stars is the joker. Heath Ledger is the best joker to date.