The Dark...'Alright I suppose'

Rating: 6/10 (24 April 2016)

As I'm working my way through the top IMDb 250, this one popped up. I've avoided it for long enough I suppose but let me get this straight.
Bruce Wayne continues to be a bourgeois, slightly sexist as well as the moral light that shines on Gotham city against some well acted villains.
Maybe I just don't get this whole 'superhero' thing, perhaps because it's been done time and time again. And certainly with the recent onslaught of predictable Marvel films flooding a cinema near you- but I was expecting to watch something with a bit more.....je nais se quoi.
But it's just all a little bit....silly. It's also a little to dumbed down from a 'violence' perspective. Batman survives a fall from quite a high building, has a really silly voice and no one knows that Batman is Bruce Wayne.
I suppose it's all just a bit...average. And when you compare this film to the others in IMDb's top 250, it really makes you question if the rating it received is just from the batman fans signing up just to review it, never to be seen again.
According to the list this film is better than Pulp Fiction, all of The Star Wars Films (well it's easily better than the Farce awakens), Interstellar, Psycho, Gladiator....I mean lets be honest- Don't be ridiculous darling. It's not even in the same league.
But ignoring that fact (of course everything is relative, I do get that), even from it's script and cinematography, it's nothing compared to those other films I've mentioned.
In short - If you're a Batman fan (I'm not really and thus trying to look at this film from an unbiased and impartial POV), you will love it. If not- well it's nothing too impressive in my opinion much like the one before.
Just watch Iron Man or Spiderman and you can guess what this one will be like, although I'd be lying if I write that I wouldn't like to of seen the continuation of the whole Joker story line (despite him being just a glorified explosives expert over anything else) in some way shape or form.
Yes...Heath does steal the show here, but it's not enough to redeem much else about the film.