not so good, not so interesting, not so moralistic, so overrated ...

Rating: 8/10 (31 July 2008)

why so boring ? Because there are no original ideas in this film, like in the previous Nolan's film (Batman Begins). As other people noticed most of batman dilemmas have been already faced in other superhero films. Memorable dialogue lines? no at all, just standard and over confusing when they try to speak about complex moral problems. Action scenes look like they're form Michael Bay, fight scenes confused, the plot is not strong enough: it is just Batman and Joker trying all the time to catch each other through an infinite streak of chases and murderings. Joker has a cool looking and has two or three fairly good shots but as the film goes on he also tires people ... he tries to explain he's caos he has not plans or rules, and, in the meantime, all his plans works perfectly in the entire movie, much more than Batman or Gordon's ones... he's rational in many ways, and too much strong when fighting. Anyway Ledger's performance is worth to see and is the best of the film, absolutely. Christian Bale still amuses us with that fish-like eye looking on each scene... always the same face. When he wears the suit of Batman and speaks some dialogue lines with that terrible voice you realize he just transformed in a perfect scarecrow. He has not personality, just a robot which follows dialogue lines as program lines. Arvey Dent is indeed well characterized and shows some personality. The make up of his face at the end of the movie is willingly exaggerated... Gordon is fair, Rachel almost needless and idiot. So far the characters. Technically the film is excellent, visual effects blend greatly with the environments and characters, realistic explosions and physics, some suggestive panoramas. gotham city design is what it is: dull. The movie is overlong ... there are many unimportant events, and the whole story is not so thrilling. Some events are very confused. You can have the idea that something scary might happen when the joker appears, but it is only in his early shots, the more the movie goes towards the end, the more you want it to finish because you see always the same things: easy murdering, lot of people running anywhere, lot of explosion, Bale's face looking at nothing and so on. And at then end, the END of the movie is disappointing. boring. without ideas ... This film is a little improvement over batman begins thanks to the joker and some few spectacular shots. Why people like it so much? Because if a movie has a dark, serious tone and complex effects people is willing to take it seriously, they think is a high level production. In the end this film has not very much to tell you, that you have not seen in other (even recent) movies. Spiderman has many of batman dilemmas, but since many people think it is for kids (due to its funny and ironic moments I presume), it does not deserve a great ranking. Spiderman smiles and says "hello". Batman grunts and says "hello". So batman must be a masterpiece and spiderman just a movie for kids. In the end they're not both masterpiece, not even excellent movies. Just Good movies.
7.5 out of 10