Best villain vs best batman equals good movie and great fun

Rating: 9/10 (4 July 2011)

Christopher Nolan teaches a great lesson here. How to make a nearly perfect piece of cinamatic art based on a comic book, the recipe is: a magneficant actor for the main villain- no need to praise that, one could argue that Heath Ledger got overrated after his early death, he truly gives a great performance here, he portrays the menacing, chaotic, psycopath in a way that old-time batman fan boys like myself watch the movie over and over just to see him again. The story's shell is nothing new, however it's all coherent, the atmosphere throughout the movie never fails to keep the watchers at the edge of their seats, the characters are (bar one, to me) all believable, and fit in Gotham city and the atmosphere perfectly. A great actor is also needed for the title role, Christian Bale is the best batman yet, not that Val Kilmer or George Clooney set the standards too high. Terrific musics and noises, a deep, disturbing melody or rhythm is always on in the background, this manages to somehow darken the atmosphere even more. Last but not least, astounding visuals- nothing's over the top, the stunts, explosions etc fit in the story well and almost everything is believable.
The 3 small think i didn't like are: the chick, who is simply not beautiful enough for her role, two-face's character, which is pretty lame, and could have made for an other whole movie, and the 3D sonar-goggles mr Freeman gave to batman, which in my opinion were only a tool to show off some nice 3d graphics, while being a little bit ridiculous.
9/10 for me, a must see for every batman fan, and action movie fan in general.