No Ordinary Comic Book Movie

Rating: 10/10 (3 November 2008)

This doesn't deserve the title of movie. It deserves a more fitting title, like masterpiece.
We watch Batman continue his crime-fighting with some new villains, but faces a new brand of criminal Gotham hasn't seen. He doesn't want money or power. He just wants to watch the city destroy itself. And he's completely insane. His name is the Joker.
Meanwhile, Harvey Dent is appointed DA, and Rachel's love. Bruce still has feelings for her, and Batman, Lt. Gordon and Dent form a shaky alliance to combat crime. The Joker slowly attempts to dismantle their sanity, pushing them practically to the point of insanity.
This film is a great example of watching the hero struggle to remain the hero in the face of great loss and hatred from others. Dent makes a quote early in the film that is basically the outline of this movie's plot: "You either die the hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." I guess I can't really elaborate on that without giving away a detail that would spoil the entire movie. But this movie shows how dangerous a person truly can become once pushed to insanity, and how far someone can be willing to go to pursue their idea of justice.
Above all, watch it, as it is a masterpiece among movies and by far the best comic book movie I have ever seen.