An Oscar worthy masterpiece but too dark and intense for PG-13 rating.

Rating: 10/10 (13 November 2008)

The Dark Knight is an amazing and riveting work of art, Heath Ledger steals the show with his electrifying and magnificent performance as "The Joker" but I think that he made the character a little too menacing and creepy for kids too watch,not to mention his make-up. The violence is very intense and at times, brutal and the darkness of the film has a Rated R/Horror Movie feel to it. The scene where The Joker does his "Magic trick" with the pencil was a bit disturbing, along with Harvey Dent's Two-Face transformation and when Harvey Dent/Two-Face, has a gun pressed to a little boy's head was little too much as well. All in all, the film is well made and surpasses all the other superhero movies and even, all the other crime-dramas as well. This film should definitely make it to the academy awards, this film makes "The Godfather" trilogy look like episodes of "Barney".