What a letdown!!!

Rating: 6/10 (6 August 2008)

For me, "The Dark Knight" was a huge disappointment. I usually like this type of movie and since my sister wanted to see it, I thought I might as well. I thought Morgan Freeman and Gary Oldman did a great job. And it was so nice to see gorgeous Aaron Eckhart in a movie like this. Christian Bale, with his odd raspy Batman voice was good, along with Maggie Gyllenhaal. Heath Ledger was good as the Joke but I'm not sure it's Oscar worthy. The Joker I saw in the previews was very different from the one I saw in the movie. In the previews, the Joker really freaked me out. But once he started talking, I found myself laughing at him. I highly doubt that was the intent, but if it was, it sure worked.
When I see a movie, I am usually so involved, I could care less about the time. At around the 2 hour mark, I started to get annoyed. I wasn't necessarily bored, just impatient. I was ready for them to get to the point of the movie. Several times I found myself thinking "surely this is the end" when, in fact, it still had 30 minutes left. It also seemed that most of it was just the Joker blowing things up. To me, they could have cut 20-30 minutes out of the movie. While it wasn't a complete waste of money, I don't plan on seeing it again.