more hype than anything

Rating: 7/10 (21 July 2008)

if it wasn't for ledgers performance i would have given it a 6/10. i think he gave a great performance & we finally saw a joker that wasn't more of a Clown than anything else....i also think the way he looked in the make up helped him sell the character, there were times just looking at him was freaky....
Batman Begins, the first movie was better in my opinion. this movie got away from batman's stealth/ghost-like/strike fear character. he's running out to fight criminals & walking threw night clubs clobbering guys to get to the mob boss in one scene. remember in Batman Begins, in the asylum when the thugs crapped themselves if he was a ghost or could fly, then the lights went out. Batman started pulling guys up from the ceiling.....then he would vanish, pop up behind another thug & take him out, then dip into the shadows, take out another thug, etc....
NO.....in this one he no longer does that or anything he was trained to do by his secret society friends....there was a scene when the joker crashed a fund raiser with a hand full of his henchmen.....would be much better if the lights shut down, one henchman gone....another out cold.....there goes another flung across a table, boom....the lights go back on & batman is right behind the joker, standing all alone.....INSTEAD he runs out there & sucker punches the joker, gets into a scuffle with his goons, one guy catches him w/ a shot & drops him to one knee (this is the same batman that took on a 1000 ninjas in the first flick?!....lol, well u know what i mean)
anyways.....same mistake as spiderman 3......love triangle was draaaaawn out, too looooong of a movie by at least 20-30 min, what was the point of 2face if your going to kill him 25 min later....BATMANS SCRUFFY VOICE was annoying!!!! he had waaaay to much dialog in the movie & shouldn't have been yapping that much to begin with.....the drawn out scene toward the end w/ joker hanging upside down not only got people a little dizzy, but NOBODY TALKS THAT LONG UPSIDE DOWN, lol, I don't care how crazy u are!
was it a bad movie , no.....was it worth all the hype......NO......it was definitely blown up over ledgers death
they should have stuck to the Batman Begins Character & Not made the same mistakes Spidey 3 & Superman returns did