Please see this at IMAX - The Best Cinematic experience so far.

Rating: 10/10 (31 July 2008)

Please, Please do not go to see The Dark Knight at a NON IMAX cinema.
I saw The Dark Knight the first evening it was available at a normal cinema ( free ticket ) and it was superb - loved it ( everybody else will tell you all about the film ) but as I had previously ordered Middle, back row IMAX tickets for the next night and I wondered if there would be much difference.
So - the next night - Sat in the Middle, back row of Auckland IMAX Cinema. I was absolutely blown away - a totally stunning Cinematic event and a truly fantastic piece of art - A different film from a normal cinema - This is no DVD at a home theatre film. It must be watched in IMAX to appreciate all the effort put into the film. If you cannot see it in IMAX as your town or country doesn't have IMAX then just hope that you can view it sometime in the future.
The views from on top of skyscrapers where instead of enjoying the film I tried to pick apart the quality of reproduction and what came back was a view which is very close to reality and the tremendous feeling of 100% superb quality.

This is also due to the huge, huge, huge screen as it also gives the viewer a feeling of " being there " as the screen is nearly larger than your field of view. A true immersion into a cinematic experience.

The Views from skyscrapers which genuinely induced a wonderful feeling of vertigo and it makes you sit forward to look over the edge.
100ft high Batman face close-ups with an incredible smooth texture to the Bat mask - shocking that not one speck of dust is viewable at any point - What is that mask made of ??? Wonderful, Wonderful huge use of the IMAX medium - Action scenes where the viewer is a tiny insignificant part of an exploding catastrophe - I could go on on but there is just so much on IMAX to appreciate.
My only criticism - the volume was too loud and therefore a single Bullet would hurt your senses. I'm sure I missed a huge % of the nuances which the sound man included in the film simply because the volume was so loud that your ears couldn't distinguish all the subtle sounds. But that was the cinema's fault and no fault of the film.
A truly amazing piece of art, and I must congratulate everybody in making a 2.5hr epic experience which includes all and more of the concepts which ones brain could possibly dream up.
Rick