AN OK Movie Not That Great. Only watch it once

Rating: 10/10 (16 March 2010)

Since the beginning of time mankind has been fascinated by the idea of a "Superhero." We've gone from Gladiators, to Prince Charming, to El Cid, and finally to a man who dresses up like a bat. The Dark Knight is one of the more overrated movies of all time in which, the Batman (Christian Bale) joins forces with District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) in order to take on Gotham City's Mob and The Joker (Heath Ledger).
For the past few months, Batman and Dent have been hard at work putting Gotham City's crime lords behind bars. Unfortunately, all of their hard work is about to go to waste as an unnatural force is brewing, a force that can't help but laugh at the horror that he creates. Enter the Joker. The Joker turns Gotham City upside down. He takes down a mob bank, blows up a hospital, destroys the people's trust in Batman, and turns Dent into Harvey Two-Face another homicidal psychopath. Batman must find a way to stop the Joker and Two-Face before they destroy Gotham City.
The original movie is most definitely better than this one
I give the Dark Knight 2.5/5 stars. On a positive note the movie had wonderful acting, excellent action scenes and great music. Ledger gives a truly marvelous performance as the Joker. He gives his character the maniacal air that makes the Joker one of the more special villains of all time. Although many aspects of the flick were good, there were many flaws to this movie as well. For starters the movie was way too long. Two hours and 32 minutes is an eternity to sit in a chair. A suitable ending would have been at the exploding hospital scene instead of the anticlimactic, dragged out finish that occurred 30 minutes later. Secondly there were way too many villains. I counted five in this movie. There was the Scarecrow, The Mob, Super Accountant Lau, Harvey Two-Face and of course the Joker. The significance of the villainy got bogged down by the over quantity of villains. The third mistake was the lighting. During the Dark Knight there are many moments where it is just too dark to see anything. It got very annoying after a while trying to decipher who was doing what. Lastly, Christian Bale was a really irritating Batman. When he talked as Batman it sounded like he had a sore larynx. The Dark Knight truly is an over-hyped movie. It is a decent flick not a classic one that could be watched over and over again. I recommend it to anyone who is only going to try and watch it just once, because the first time is truly better than the 2nd or 3rd time.
This is not the greatest movie of all time. Its simply an OK movie.