Not one of the best of all time

Rating: 7/10 (4 September 2008)

I just watched this movie, I been looking forward to seeing it for some time now, and I can't say that I've been disappointed but this is not one of the best of all time, not by far. Except for the Joker all the other characters have nothing fascinating about them.
And to be honest : the performance by the late Heath Ledger is a good one, but not to be compared to Hopkins's Lecter , or Javier Bardem from No Country for Old men or Al Pacino from The Devil's Advocate.
Most of the dialogs are trivial, the story is pretty predictable and the morals and principles of the hero ( Batman ) are expressed in a very common and cheap (this is my opinion) way.
This is a pretty good movie, but let's face it : it's just a box office movie , not a artistic one. In my view, it shouldn't even have made the top 250 movies.
In closing I want to say ( and this might sound cruel ) that if it wasn't for the sad death of Heath Ledger this movie wouldn't have receive all the positive reviews.