Good blockbuster, but nothing more

Rating: 8/10 (26 July 2008)

I like the Batman movies of Tim Burton and I thought Batman Begins was a fresh new start. This new episode is a good follow-up but not the masterpiece I'm reading in the other reviews. The story is too flat for me with a lot of noise and great action scenes but no real depth, just chaos all around. The biggest problem for me was the role of Batman himself. I never felt he was really in the storyline. Everything seems to happen around him and too him and he's just following along. The Joker is the central character in this movie and the performance of Ledger is haunting. Problem is he only appears in action scenes and high drama interactions with other characters. I never got a feel of the real motivations of this character, his background etc. It's a good movie and I loved it as a blockbuster, but by no means an epic.