Heath Ledger stole this movie

Rating: 7/10 (17 January 2009)

This was a good movie...but not great.
First of all I enjoyed the Joker bad guy persona so much that I was almost rooting for him at the end. Heath Ledger just consumed this part so well that I did not even recognize him, every part facial, body language and of course the smiling bad guy curl in his voice.
But I found myself saying "what the hell" in several parts of the film. Like how did Batman not hear of the Joker before he dropped in the party. And how is a guy with a knife and handgun manage to have the ability to get away from Batman so many times.
But what really did it for me was...why did Batman let the joker live at the end!!! Come on this is supposed to be the newer meaner batman...and did he not get the memo...the Joker can't come back next movie.
Batman did not seem to have as many awesome toys in this movie...and his car did not hold up very well against the bad guys. And to be honest...the movie started to drag...I mean it was almost 3 Hours long.