Good but saying its the best movie ever is retarded

Rating: 6/10 (28 July 2009)

I was never a fan of the batman comics or the cartoons but found batman begins extremely entertaining and certainly did revive the franchise. The dark knight was good but again over-hyped due to mainstreams movie viewers saying its best movie ever so they look cool. Im sure there's a lot of you out there calling this the best movie ever who said the same thing about transformers, transformers 2, pirates of Caribbeans etc. Those people really need to stop because it does not make you look or sound intelligent or have good taste at all.
Let me start with the pros. The designs in this film is top notch, from the batman armor to the bat mobile and particularly the joker. Some of the stuns were actually pretty good also (eg. Kinapping Asian mob accountant from hong Kong. Christian bale who is one of my favorite actor was good enough, not brilliant, just good enough. The joker played by ledger was funny and at the same time repulsive. For instance when he interrupted the mob meeting, placed a pencil on the table and said "you wanna see a magic trick?" and preceded to smashing a bodyguard's head into the pencil. It was a very nice touch and established the jokers personality earlier on.
OK, now onto the bad stuffs. Aaron Eckhart was never my favorite actor and again this film reminded me why. Its not the fact that he cant act but you can never quite take him serious enough, which is bad in a movie as dark as this.. The only annoying thing i found about him was his voice when he is batman, i know he is trying to hide his identity but the growling was just overdone at times.
Also, the story was Way too long, very choppy with some elements completely unnecessary, like the bombs on the 2 ferries at the end. And whats with batman and getting his ass kicked by dogs, i mean hes got all these Fancy gadgets but doesn't even have some sort of taser to deal with the dogs? instead he rolled around on the ground looking like an idiot while the joker hit him with a steel pipe doing no damage at all. Hardly good actions in my opinion.
In conclusion, The dark knight is an OK action film with its shares of good and bads. But as always its the story development and length which stopped it from becoming a great film like its predecessor. That being said, it is certainly a decent rent worth its money just don't believe the hypes and 10/10 comments by these hypocrites.