No movie can ever rival this one

Rating: 10/10 (20 July 2019)

I saw this movie in theaters as a 9 year old kid who was obsessed with the joker and loved Batman, so I had high expectations. And yes I was only 9 so I didn't really understand everything, I just loved the joker and Batman punching people. But boy oh boy as I got older and understood more the movie only got better.
Christopher Nolan and his fellow writers took comic book characters and turned them into a dark and twisted reality. The characters of Batman and joker are written to perfection. They are two sides of the same coin, and that's exactly how it is in the comics, but the point is driven even further here. Batman can't exist without people like Joker to fight, and Joker can't exist without the dark knight himself. They play off each other psychologically and need one another even if they don't know it.
And holy cow the character of the Joker is a masterpiece in writing and in acting. The script could have been performed well by almost anyone, but nobody could have made it an all-time performance like Ledger did. The commitment and motives to the character are astounding and create a man who can exist in any city in the world. And that's the scariest part, when people think "comic book movie" they think of superhero aliens who are invincible. But what if the concept is set in our real world? The joker is just a man who snaps, and Batman is just a man who wants to do right and has the cash to pursue it. This is so much more than a comic book movie as it immerses you in a world you already live in