One of My Favorite Movies

Rating: 9/10 (24 January 2014)

This movie is nearly perfect in my opinion because of three reasons: The complex, thrilling and chilling plot that Christopher Nolan and company presented to us, the fact that it provided a great follow-up to Batman Begins in showing how Batman has affected the people of Gotham both negatively and positively, and finally--you guessed it--because of Heath Ledger's magnificent portrayal of comics' greatest villain, The Joker. Also, performances by Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Aaron Eckhart, and of course,Christian Bale were great as well, but not to be compared with Heath's. The only flaw that this movie has is the fact that--like many Nolan movies--it had a couple plot holes such as the mix-up of the line concerning playing it close to the chest that Batman says to Lucius, which is erroneously repeated by the Mayor to Jim Gordon. Other than a few things like that, the movie is captivating, intense, emotional, and flat-out brilliant.