Leather show

Rating: 7/10 (3 August 2008)

Explosions, shooting, beating and more explosions. But surely there's a timing and a rhythm here which is splendid. It's better than the comic magazines from Batman's golden age, the 60s, ever were.
Much has been said about Heath Ledger and much of it is true. He really puts on a performance, which gives new aspects to the film psychopaths and he will be remembered for this.
Pity the movie is so completely childish, although it's on purpose. And pity it's 30-45 minutes too long. It loses tempo in the last third and there was nothing Ledger could do about it. For many reasons he should have had a much longer life.