A perfect movie ruined by the hype.

Rating: 10/10 (27 July 2008)

So as you can see by my rating I gave this movie a 10 out of 10, but some people choose to use a Spinal Tap scale and try and give this movie an 11! I have to respectfully disagree. While I'll agree that it's the best Batman movie ever made, and even the best comic book movie ever made, it is still only the best of these genres and only deserves to be a ten. As many of you already know the Joker performance was amazing and I really mean that. The JOKER was amazing, not Heath. The Joker's greatness was a result of a well written character that if played by another actor we would still admire just as much, although I did think Heath's timing of saying "Hi." while dressed as a nurse in the hospital was perfect. Batman's voice can be irritating at times and at least twice in the movie I was able to predict what was going to happen or at least I knew what was happening while we as the audience weren't supposed to know. I also had mixed reactions the movie's dialog. Everything said by the Joker in this movie was superb, but most everything else said by other characters were either comparable to other action movie dialog or just plain dull. I did enjoy most of Albert's dialog as well. I really enjoyed the character Harvey Dent but he became ten times less interesting when he became Two-face, a sentiment I fell that was felt by others who complained that the movie's final ten minutes were stale despite the fact that the white knight/dark knight contrast was pretty good. Still though this is a great movie, but I wouldn't try to compare it to some of the best movies ever made like some other people have done.