Not that good

Rating: 4/10 (19 July 2009)

I do not understand what movie everybody seems to have been watching. "The dark knight" simply is not that good.
I am sorry. Heath Ledger is dead. Should we just close our eyes and pretend everything he did in this film was great? I definitely do not think so. He was just re-acting Mr. Depp's pirate! While Depp was absolutely convincing in his role as Cpt. Sparrow, Ledger only copied the whole concept. That was pretty weak acting.
I still do not understand why Gary Oldman plays Gordon. What a complete waste! He could be such a fantastic villain, or brilliant at every role, that has light and darkness about it. Gordon is just a straight honorable man. And you let Oldman play this!? The rest of the cast is doing pretty fine. Even though I think some of the great names are straight forward wasted on stereotype roles! So what about the story line? Does it overcome any of the above mentioned items? No way! Batman is forced to consider his actions. Is it in any way justifiable what he does? Off course not! Taking the law into your own hand is no good idea. There is historic evidence: It is very advisable to place the force into the hands of a state, that is bound to law and that is democratic justified. While it is a romantic idea to overcome the weaknesses of the state by individual actions it is in practice the end of a free society.
On a comic book level batman is cool. But is there any sense in seriously considering his role? No, that's ridiculous. Our hero does not kill villains, he does not judge them. But he is bending the rules to catch them. So he is bending the rules by spying out all cell phones. Is that in fact worse than beating up presumed criminals? Worse than breaking every single piece of law in order to catch th "evil" ones? It is absolutely silly to have this as a theme in a batman comic-movie. Every reasonable state would HAVE to put our hero into prison. No option on that, period.
The movie is pretty good, 5 out of 10 ain't to bad. But that's all!