Honestly, I haven't felt this excited in a theater since The Matrix

Rating: 9/10 (7 October 2008)

I will let out the synopsis of the film this time, since almost everyone knows it. Instead I would just like to simply express some of my impressions.
First off, I think the best thing about this film is not "The Joker" as many say, but the short little moments when Nolan, Ledger, Hans Zimmer & James N. Howard (the composers), join their forces and create these little tense and anxious moments that are slowly rising the tension and leave you in limbo. Anxiety contrary to phobia, as you may know, means the absence of a feared object and the anticipation of something. My personal favorite: the scene with the Joker and Rachel at Wayne's party. And there are a few more. I think the instrument that is used during these scenes is some sort of a horn and it's getting slightly louder and louder and joined by other instruments, combined with the actual happening in the film of course.
And a few words about the Joker. If I would describe him it would be excessive enthusiasm, pathos, or even immortality. There are two opposite situations where you can't possibly put the Joker, because he wouldn't be the Joker anymore. One situation is being dead, the other is waking up. Why? Because when people are waking up they are always serious, I can imagine the Joker sleeping and snoring, it would still look kind of funny, waking up no. Except if it would happen extremely fast, with the speed of light. The Joker is always in FULL conscience, contrary when we are waking up we are in these states of, how would I say it, vulnerability. We can easily start to ask ourselves about what is the purpose of our doing, the meaning of our life, etc... And that is the last thing that a psychotic villain like the Joker would do. Try to imagine it for yourselves. Ledger played him 100 percent proper.
There are so many more things I could say about this film. All the elements just seem to collide, there are basically no big flops in my opinion. I just don't give 10's very often, I don't know exactly why, It's just this "rule" I have and I'm quite invariable about it. I think the film has to be "tested", viewed many times before you can consider it perfect and in time you might change your opinion and I would feel stupid if I would go from 10 to 9 later or something like that.