One of the best action movies in years.

Rating: 10/10 (25 July 2008)

This is by far the best comic book superhero movie ever made and it is one of the best action movies I have seen for years.
It cuts out all the crap in modern day Hollywood movies. Such as overdosing the audience with unnecessary special effects, trying to charm the audience by trying to be overly funny, cramming in too much action, and so on. It has real old school feel to it.
The story is great, acting is great, and the execution too is also great. Heath Ledger undoubtedly steals the show with his breathtaking portrayal of the Joker, but then the Joker was meant to be the star of the movie. If the first of the new batman movies dealt with Bruce Wayne becoming Batman, this one deals with the consequences of the imbalance caused by appearance of Batman in Gotham city. Only thing I wished more was for the movie to go into the background of the Joker more, but perhaps that was meant for the next one?
It's a long movie but not a single scene out of place and really the performance of Heath Ledger alone makes it worth while experience, but that isn't to say that the whole movie isn't mesmerising because it is. I never read batman comics, I wasn't too crazy about the first movie and never got into the hype of this one, other than hearing of the death of Heath ledger. So after being let down by the Indiana Jones few weeks before, I was well and truly pleased when I came out of the cinema even though I had to pay a small fortune and sitting through the movie in an uncomfortable seat had given me a back pain.