The most inventive depiction of Batman in cinema

Rating: 10/10 (20 January 2018)

This film takes the concept of Batman and turns it into something that had never been done and has never been done properly since. The film isn't amazing because it's "dark" or "realistic", though it is both of those things. What makes the movie so great is that it warps the idea of heroes and villains so that it is no longer the typical black and white morality checklist that plagues most comic book films. Rather than following the basic formula of "bad guy does bad thing, good guy fights bad guy, bad guy loses, happy ending," the characters are put into a desperate situation where there are no true winners and everyone is forced to reconsider what is right and what is wrong. Every performance in this films is also spot on, especially Heath Ledger's legendary role as The Joker: a performance that can only be described as perfect.