Very good movie, but lets stand back and take another look. {Spoiler}

Rating: 6/10 (12 August 2008)

What fantastic set pieces(the escape in the Chinese office building was as good as you'll see) and stunning performances all round, also visually brilliant but I thought that the plots were over cooked, there were just too many twists and turns for my liking, to me it seemed like the quantity of twists and turns would give it more merit in the eyes of the director. It almost seemed like two or three movies rolled into one, yet there was no great plot. There was a very rushed character development of Dent to two face.. just up out of his hospital bed straight into a killing spree really. The movie was two long, the pacing was a little scattered at times and some of the dialog seemed old hat to me, I thought it started to lean more toward a Tim Burton take on the franchise, I did love the Burton movies but I loved what Nolan was doing too, his raw back to basics model added grit and a very dark reality. It bothered me that it was borrowing heavily from the James Bond "Gadget Demo" scenes when they were inspecting the gadgets and Bruce accidentally sets off the device is told "It would help to read the instructions master Wayne" rings very much of "Be careful Bond" to me, what's next.. X-Ray specs?... and remember this is what the Bond Franchise themselves moved away from. I did of course think it was well worth seeing but disappointing after the hype I suppose. We really didn't get to spend any time with Bruce Wayne himself. Also Christian Bales Batman voice, it sounded waaay to put on, laughable in fact. All this said I'm simply trying to put into focus what I've seen, it is very good but not the greatest film ever made. Thanx, OTCii.