Great movie but not the best movie ever.

Rating: 10/10 (28 July 2008)

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I made a mistake when I go watch this movie. I live in the UK and the movie comes out a bit later than the US and I read comments on IMDb and guys has rated it as the best movie in the history surpass The GodFather and one of the comments told everyone Harvey Dent is the Two Face that I thought the preview of the movie covered it very nicely and it ruined my mood a little bit. I went to the cinema expecting to see a movie as the best in the movie history. To be honest, I was disappointed in the first half hour.
It was the usual stuff that talking about the batman against the gangs, he kicked their asses and gangs afraid of him and try to kill him blah blahIt is fun to see some more realistic gangsters in the superhero movies but they are certainly no Corleone family. I thought the idea of normal superhero in a superhero movie is very good but like the Batman Begins, I really could not see some of the moves the actors are throwing, which normally I want to see in the action movies. (Die Hard series and most of the HongKong fighting movies do that very well). I believe the theme of dark has some thing to do with it.
However, it gets better later on in the movie. Turn out that this is a movie not only about the action, it is psychological as well. The movie was saved by the great performance of the Joker who is playing the mind games rather than attacking with only force. The whole world was just his playground and his goal is trying to turn it to darkness. I did not prepare to see something like because I was not sure what I was expecting except the great action scenes. The movie speaks for itself. It gets better and better towards the end. It is not about the hero saving the city. It is about how people will listen to whatever they want to hear and the outcome only depends on them. It is what the real world is about, powerful mind try to cover up the bad and make sacrifices to make people think the world is wonderful because when most people in the society think everything negatively, the world will just be destroyed itself.
I really thought the producers are great to bring that out and show it to us very well and I thought that it is impossible to present this well in any kind of hero movies. Everyone in the movie plays great in their role (well, for the cast of the movie, it is impossible for them to play bad.) The direction was great and they picked great actors in this movie. I would not give this movie a higher mark than the GodFather because the acting performance still been disturbed by many action scenes, which is not the point making this movie great. 9 stars from me just because I don't think it is the best movie ever. On normal days I will give it 10 stars.