Plot holes and a very poor joker

Rating: 3/10 (31 December 2013)

I watched the first of the trilogy yesterday, Batman Begins and thought it was a great film. So i watched this today and felt compelled to write a review. I have never reviewed any film before. My problem is with the Joker and instead of the one or two quick lines we are used to from the joker in previous films and the series, we are treat with a freezing of time while the joker bores us with a minute plus of not very well delivered boredom and the other character in the scene keep silent and listens. This happens all the way through the movie and ruins it. I had heard people rave about heath ledgers performance but they must be young uns who didn't grow up with the American series and then jack Nicholson's excellent portrayal. It was basically a toned down bad copy of jn. Now i know its fantasy and we have to stretch our imagination but there was a point in the film where i nearly turned it off as it simply was beyond belief. Dents loved one has been killed by the joker and he has a gun pointing at him and doesn't kill him. WTF? Heath ledgers dialogue probably bored him into a coma or sent him to sleep. But there is no way if you loved someone and had their killer at your mercy and you had already shown in the film that you were prepared to take a life that you wouldn't have killed him. Sorry i could not get over that. Especially after that point Dent then kills people who were peripheral to Rachels death!!! How the film gets 9/10 on here i haven't a clue. Come on people how can you paper over a massive plot hole like that?