One of the two best superhero movies out there

Rating: 9/10 (4 December 2015)

Do I think this movie is over rated? Well I'd be lying if I said I didn't. It is a superhero movie after all. Having said that it is probably the best superhero movie in history (although for me it is tied with The Avengers.) Why is it so great? Well firstly it's more than just a superhero movie. It is also a crime movie, and it is also a thriller movie (often those two come together.) A lot of average superhero movies can be pretty cheesy, but not this one. This one is dark, gritty, and has a great villain.
Sorry did I just say great villain, well I meant superb villain. The Joker in this movie was just...disturbing. He was insane, THAT was obvious from the moment he is first seen, but how deep does his insanity go? Well pretty darn deep if you ask me. He robs the bank of Gotham, and despite creating a huge mess, manages to get away without being caught. He proves to be relatively hard to catch (even causing Jim Gordon to fake his own death, in order to catch him (The Joker.) He blows up a hospital, just by pushing a few remote buttons, on a controller. He even pulls a George R R Martin and kills Rachel Dawes (Bruce Wayne's love interest, from not only this movie, but also the previous one) halfway through the movie. But his greatest crime is turning Gotham cities White Knight in to a villainous criminal with half a face.
Harvey Dent is the secondary villain in the movie, and his change from being a good guy "the best of them all", into being a bad guy 'Two-face' is quite shocking, and is another great thing about the story.
Something I didn't like about this movie is Batman. I think he is supposed to be very subtle, and slip around unnoticed, when for a lot of this movie he is being loud, and slightly clumsy, and yet in the final stand down, he hardly shows up at all, until it is ALMOST too late. I'm not dissing the actor, he did a good Bruce Wayne, when he was Bruce Wayne, but the direction he was given in playing Batman was a little but off. Nevertheless it was an interesting take on Batman, and it was VERY different to the comics, much like this whole trilogy.
Speaking of the third act though, that was the other thing a lot of people probably overlooked. I don't mind ambitious endings, but I'm not a huge fan of open ended endings. What I mean by that is I don't like endings, where I feel more confused then satisfied, or even more so, endings where I felt unsatisfied in general. I didn't feel unsatisfied at the end of this movie, but I was a little bit (oh okay...that's the end then.) As I mentioned before, batman comes in to the action at the last minute, but the most confusing thing was: What on earth happened to the Joker??? Seriously the last we see of him, is him laughing maniacally, hanging from a latch, and then we don't see him for the last 10 minutes of the movie.
Despite these problems it is a very good, suspenseful, and at times entertaining film, that is as many people say, the best the superhero genre can offer. Do I think it should be number 4 on IMDb? No absolutely not, but I still think it's a great film. Probably the best superhero movies out there, and with that I will say it is an 8/10