I'm disappointed

Rating: 5/10 (20 August 2008)

For me, 'Batman Begins' is the ultimate Batman movie and I was very much looking forward to The Dark Knight. I had some reservations about Heath Ledger and thought that the hype about his playing is created only because of his untimely death earlier this year. But I was wrong as he was excellent as the Joker. As a matter of fact, he was so much better than anyone else in this movie that he sort of played the others 'off' the screen. The acting the other big names did in this movie seems very weak if I compare it to Ledger's outstanding work. This is his movie,no doubt about that. My real problem with this movie was that the plot is weak and a lot of things are predictable. While '..Begins' builds up the world of Batman and explains his motivations, clearly shows the links and connections and does all this in a stunningly dark & sinister atmosphere, The Dark Night fails to build on the heritage of Nolan's first Batman movie. Techincally this movie is 10/10 but as long as the story, characters and playing are concerned, it is just lame at several points. Bale's 'Batman voice' is just terrible and ridiculous at the same time. Instead of adding to the 'batmanism' of Bruce Wayne this voice-thing makes him funny, in a very lame way. I was more than annoyed by this while watching the movie. All in all, I so much wanted to love this movie but looks like this won't happen. My mark is 5/10.