Way over-rated!!

Rating: Null/10 (6 November 2011)

Firstly, let me say I've seen Batman Begins lots of times and I really love that film, it's great entertainment that doesn't bore me no matter how many times I watch it. It's very simple and has a good balance of action/drama with a bit of comedy in there.
When I first came out of the cinema from The Dark Knight I thought "What a very messy story". The whole thing is just too much!!
I love Batman, I think he's a great super-hero but this was irritating, I think they've tried too hard to make a psychological thriller. And I think when movies go down the psychological route they immediately get rated a few points higher than they should do. Generally if people feel they've used their brain a little bit after watching a film they think it was really clever and think it was great.
Here come the spoilers: The Joker is a good character but he's WAY too ahead of everyone in this. It's ridiculous just how many times he's one step ahead. When Bruce Wayne does this silly scan of a broken up bullet out of a brick wall, he finds a fingerprint, finds an address just as there's a funeral parade on for the police commissioner. As he gets there, there is a timer on the blind which makes the snipers fire in Bruce Wayne's direction. I mean REALLY????? The joker really thought that from a bullet in the wall this would lead batman to this location on that particular day?? Sorry but this just seemed stupid to me!
Also when they "capture" the joker, he planned all of that out?? He planned the route the police were going to drive him, and of course they would drive him in a big convoy with all flashing lights inviting trouble!! The police didn't even question Harvey Dent when he admitted he was the batman. The jokers nut-case followers knew exactly when and where to shoot cables to take down a police helicopter??
Even the very first sequence of the bank robbery.....the school bus pulls out of a bank and no one on the street blinks an eye lid? he just joins the long line of buses travelling down that street?? Even the driver he pulls out in front of doesn't think "That bus pulled out of the bank..That was a bit strange??"
Exactly how do they manage to load those boats with all those explosives?? Is there just no security, no staff???
It's full of these annoying things, Harvey Dent goes a little bit TOO mad after He's burnt and Rachel has been blown up for my liking. After all those years of being a decent man he throws it all away just like that, doesn't kill the mad joker when he has the chance.
How do you get all those explosives all over the hospital with nobody noticing?? they're 24 hour operations with staff everywhere aren't they??
Anyway I think I've made my point here. Lets hope the next one is a big improvement. I would of rated this about a 5 but I'm going for a 1 to try and bring the average down more as 8.9 is definitely way too high!! I think too many people have been sucked into the hype of this and think it's better than it really is!!