gratuitous "vileness"

Rating: 1/10 (23 January 2011)

One of the writer's wanted it to be realistic? yer kidding..
Could the joker realistically rig up all that stuff? ...c'mon, maybe a bomb in a closet, but the character's mayhem seems very unlikely (hospital demolition was particularly overdone). And what a premise, ever been to a hospital? Full of hard working people helping sick and hurting folks, nice theme point to blow one full of innocent people up; Like i said gratuitous vileness, period.
And could anyone understand what Batman was saying? So much of his dialog I replayed and even after several times, still couldn't make it out; perhaps all for the best.
The movie's set up -(of course to justify the conclusion), - is just all sort of contorted, irksome to this viewer.
Another point of 'unbelieveability': when a person experiences really severe injuries, as one character did, how many scenes can you expect to play as a "running around guy" when you should actually be hanging by a thread in intensive care? We saw it on cable TV; did he perhaps turn super human during a commercial?
Finally: does anyone know what becomes of our friend the Joker in the end? Maybe the TV version cut that out? It just sort of left him "hanging".
All in all, a pretty crumby premise, w/ what's become so overused and typical: sick motives, expressed by pathological plot themes and characters. Just more of the same sensationalism, like so much of todays action thriller stuff, nothing new here, just another film trying to out "gross" (and by that I mean: to be more grotesque, repulsively ugly or distorted and gruesome).
For a viewer who enjoys action movies, or used to, from what's being produced now-a-days, - I'm more inclined to pass them by and go for other genres.
My recommendation: save your time and seek alternate entertainment to this gut wrenching tripe. I'd say boycott it, and the stuff it imitates. Avoid it like you would trans fat and second hand smoke, it too will probably be found not not so good for us in the long run (exposure to sick minds carrying out sick motives. You can find entertainment alternatives that aren't based on sicko themes!
(and also, never try to do one of these reviews on an android, ouch.