Nolan creates brilliant multi-colored film and yet it all seems so familiar...

Rating: 6/10 (18 July 2008)

Well, I must say that the imagery in this movie is fantastic. I love the directing. Very symbolic. The acting is truly brilliant. Heath Ledger is most definitely a fine actor and very impressive. However, this movie was not so outstanding and I was not awe-stricken. The plots were very repetitive. It was as if I had seen it all before. Granted, the joker was extremely malevolent but that scene where he tells Batman that the city will turn on him and they will not love him anymore--all I could see was that scene from Spider-Man. Goblin speaks almost the exact same words. The only difference is that Spider-Man was made six years earlier. Also, the mind games that Two-Face plays with his victims reminded me of the horrifying games of Russian roulette during The Deer Hunter. Or quite possibly the game of life and death that Anton Chigurh plays with his victims in No Country for Old Men. Life is depended upon a single flip of the coin. Besides this movie not being very original, it was overall pretty good. The Spider-Man 3-like structure of bringing in a second villain halfway through and carrying on several subplots worked out for Dark Knight, I guess. I would recommend it if you have not seen any of the following movies. Otherwise, it is like watching a brilliantly directed sum-up of so many other better movies before The Dark Knight's time.