Flawless

Rating: 9/10 (26 July 2008)

As a critic, I think this movie was virtually flawless. It had great depth and had an intellectual and philosophical feel, which may have made it more of a film that wasn't quite Hollywood wham bam action pace but was still very engaging and made it more of an epic film. I felt the Joker didn't really become a true villain with leadership qualities until the second half of the film, when most of the film was in darkness, which was probably natural to the story line. Although I think in the first half they tried to make him seem like he was a real "bad ass" before he had actually proved himself as something more than just a nuisance and mischievous character in part of a gang. I felt that there was definitely a lot of different angles to this film and it wasn't really about Batman vs Joker at all except towards the end and even then they were just players in the scheme of things. It's definitely a film that needs to be seen at least twice to absorb everything that's going on and to get a glimpse of what the next film might hold if they decide to make a third Christopher Nolan film. The only thing I had an issue with cinematography wise was that the building they used as Gotham Hospital looked and felt like nothing more than a 3 story abandoned office building located in an industrial park rather than in the heart of the city. Outside of that little blemish this film was an A+ in every aspect of the film.