Very good film

Rating: 7/10 (25 July 2008)

I only gave it a 7 out of 10. I can't give it higher, if this is the theatrical cut, I should give it lower. There must be a better cut than this. Batman Begins if one of my all time fav movies, but I have issues with this one. Heath's Joker is amazing. The script is amazing. The Visuals are amazing. I even like how they added a little bit of things that annoyed me about the first one. Like using your companies R&D stuff without anyone knowing. Worst accountants EVA!
That being said, these things are the only problems I had with the movie. 1) The Cut. I know there is a longer version of this film out there. A lot of the scenes didn't make sense. The joker escapes from prison and the very next day he has already initiated another plan. WHAT? Give the guy a few days. Didn't he want to sleep? Eat? He had to buy all that stuff. The movie is full of that. Terrorist in real life take years of planning and 'nonactivity' to hatch a scheme. If Bale would have said "We haven't heard from the joker in a month..." and suddenly the Joker appears on TV hatching a scheme, I would have accepted that. And Katie holmes ruined Dawes character that bad that she didn't even get a funeral? 2) The henchmen. This isn't just my problem with this film, it is all batman films (except Begins) in general. WHERE DO THE BADGUYS GET THESE GUYS? Is there a human resource section? The joker must have went through what 50 guys this film. With a turnover rate like that, and the fact that he is burning all this money, who would join him? "Crazy" people? Just because you are crazy, doesn't mean that if the Joker says, "ok stand there like a hostage while a tied up hostage holds a gun to you. When the police come they will be caught off guard". What did the henchmen think will happen??? No matter what, there was only one result: All the henchmen would have died. If the police department had this many cracks in it, why didn't the joker's....department? And again, how did he come up with these guys?
Other than that, it was a good film. I can't see them ever topping it.