Load of rubbish!!

Rating: 1/10 (24 August 2008)

BORING, UNEXCITING, TEDIOUS, OVERLONG and UNINTERESTING..only a few choice words I can think of off hand to describe this total and utter let-down of a film that everyone else seems to be raving about! What a load of absolute rubbish, it was a total waste of time from start to finish.
I had originally decided not to see this film having not overly enjoyed Batman Begins but gave in in the end due to all the hype and the fact that it had soared to the No 1 spot in the IMDb database. I was absolutely shocked and amazed by this, how it can go ahead of such BRILLIANT films as SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION and STAR WARS i'll never know, not to mention the masterpiece of LORD OF THE RINGS! I see TDK is currently in the No 3 position, all I can say is that I only hope it continues to drop places.
To put things in perspective I wish I hadn't of bothered with TDK..within ten minutes I was sitting there in the cinema yawning my head off! For one thing I had difficulty understanding many of the sentences the characters were saying and for another the whole film just didn't hold my attention. I thought Christian Bale was boring and wooden in his role of Batman, with that silly voice when he's in the suit to match. Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine were fine as always but utterly underused. If their is one shred of goodness in this film through my eyes it would be for Heath Ledger as the Joker. His untimely death shortly after the making of this film did, i'll admit, help spur me on to see TDK and, after all the hype put out for his performance he certainly didn't disappoint. He truly stole every scene he was in and so deserves every credit he gets. He was a great young actor who will be sadly missed.
I just can't believe how so many people love this film so much, what is the matter with all of you?!? No disrespect to any other IMDb reader/writer of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion but mine is one star for this film and one star only. TDK was the worst film of the summer for me, Wall-e was better by far! At least that film had bags of imagination, character development and story. This had nothing, even the action sequences were uninteresting and flat. It was so overlong too that, after a while, I was silently shouting at the screen - "COME ON, GET ON WITH IT".
I will NEVER see another Batman film again in the cinema, I don't care what level the hype meter goes to. I knew this would be crap and it was.
By the way, in case your wondering, my one star rating is for Heath Ledger's performance and for it alone.