The best movie ever - really?!?

Rating: 9/10 (28 July 2008)

I've had heard lots of hype of these new Batman movies (2005 & 2008) and when my friend asked me to join him to see this newest Batman film I decided to check what IMDb says from it. #1. Oh my God! My first thought was that this cannot be true. There must be an error. Sure I like Batman but action/superhero movie to be _the_ best movie ever... I decided to check the more spesific user ratings - even females aged 45+ (over 500 votes) gave this movie 8. Wow! After this me and my friends gathered to see the Batman Begins (2005) and I've to say I wasn't so impressed. As a conclusion I would describe it as an ordinary action film - Batman Returns (1992) was still much better than this. It has some character and wits in it. So I didn't expect much from this new Batman movie and almost cancelled my ticket to see it. Happily I didn't.
This new Batman has different style than Burton had. It's not a dark fairytale, it's more realistic. What especially fascinated me was good acting and screenplay (remember again that this is a Hollywood superhero movie!). Heath Ledger (The Joker), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Rachel Dawes) and Aaron Eckhart (Harvey Dent) made this movie to come alive. It's not easy to make 30's camp comic characters believable. They blazed in this task.
Also the screenplay was captivating and smart. It kept viewers awake and didn't cut corners - except there very last minutes. At the last half hour of this movie I thought several times that "stop the movie to this - you're in shallow waters!" but they managed to avoid the rocks. But not to the very end. Fortunately the crash wasn't big - well judge yourself...
As an conclusion I would say this is great movie. Heath Ledger (The Joker), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Rachel Dawes) and Aaron Eckhart (Harvey Dent) really breath good screenplay alive. Christopher Nolan directed this movie smooth and showy. Remembering that this movie based on camp comic the result is amazing. Watch it yourself! ...but is this _the_ best movie ever - let's say I hate superlatives...