Best hero/villain I have ever seen

Rating: 9/10 (18 July 2008)

And no, not because of Batman and the Joker, though they do lend a lot of credence to the film. The true hero is Harvey Dent, and his depiction as he is played for a pawn by the Joker. Batman needs no introduction, we had an entire movie, Batman Begins, dedicated to him. The Joker, Nolan left out his story on purpose, that we could be introduced to a, for loss of a better word, maniac.
But Dent. Alluded to his past in internal investigations, his reputation already shadowed at his future self. His trademark coin toss, tricking the viewer into believing they were watching a psychopathic gambler masquerading as a lawyer as he tosses the life of the Scarecrow without even a hint of mercy. Once we realize it was never the gamble we were led to believe, the Joker deals him from the bottom of the deck, making him into the iconic villain we had come to expect of him. No, not Tommy Lee's Two-Face. The true Two-Face, one armed with self-righteousness, a coin, and a gun. Our pity is with him right up to the moment he flips the coin to decide the boys life, hoping that he would turn face and just leave. Even as he falls, I was hoping that he may survive, that one of Batman's greatest villains being killed by a 30 foot fall seemed incredulous. But now I understand. This is Nolan's Batman. This was not about the villain Two-Face like Batman Returns.
This was about the hero Harvey Dent.