Not as good as everyone says it it

Rating: 5/10 (7 April 2016)

When I viewed this film, I was aware of the hype, and was especially excited to view Heath Ledger's acclaimed Joker. And frankly, The entirety of the film disappointed me.
First off, I believe that Heath Ledger's performance was only as big as it was because he died (does this qualify as a spoiler?) soon after. If he had lived, people likely would not have liked it as much. Second, the whole series has problems (Batman committing genocide in Batman Begins, the fact that he would have accidentally blown up Gotham in The Dark Knight Rises) with the story, this film had many more. Why were the fake Batmen faking Batman? Why didn't anyone notice an extra man in the 21-gun salute? And does no one care that Batman just MURDERED Two-Face? Apparently not.
Which brings me to point three. Why was Two-Face included? I believe it was only to sell toys. But the performance of this character leads me to my proposition in how they could have fixed the Dark Knight trilogy:
1. Fix the fact that Batman committed mass genocide in Batman Begins 2. Cast Willem Dafoe as Joker instead of Heath Ledger 3. Don't kill Dent in Dark Knight 4. Scrap Dark Knight Rises and have a film about the interesting foil that Dent represents to Batman
So all in all, this film was disappointing, but it could have been saved. At least it will always be better than anything that Zack Snyder can ever come up with. And Heath Ledger will always be preferred to Jared Leto.