Excellent film with very minor problems

Rating: 8/10 (23 May 2015)

Let's get the bad things out of they way because there are a lot of them however they are very minor and the rest of the film completely makes up for them:
1. How come the Joker didn't get knocked out from the bomb?
2. Why are the extras so awful at acting with only one line to say? (Specifically the boat scene)
3. How is Harvey Dent saying the letter "P"?
4. The fighting is a bit awkward.
5. You can spit out that grenade, so you know, so you don't die.
6. That brick thing is a bit stupid.
7. Does Fox really need a lab that big?
8. Did they deliberately pick the most British words for Michael Caine to say?
9. The main problem though is that the film is about ideas and less about characters, so when one of the characters dies you care very little. This, again, is excusable because the ideas in the film are so great.
Done. See they were very minimal really.
I could write about The Dark Knight for ages so here's a short list of positives:
1. Relies almost entirely on practical effects to a ridiculous extent. One of the uses of CGI, which is on a characters face looks amazingly realistic.
2. Obligatory "HEATH LEDGER IS GREAT" message. Some say that people over hype him because he died but trust me, watch that performance and tell me it's bad or even average. You won't be able to. Heath also added little details to his character, some of these originated from Nolan. The makeup wearing off over time, makeup residue on his hands implying he had to put it on himself, wearing a Harvey Dent badge whilst meeting him, the lip licking, the unique laugh used sparingly and effectively, the dark humour, not looking at most of the people he kills, the very clever ideaS about the Joker's conflicting and contradictory stories about his scars so his actual backstory is even more vague, the clapping which was improvised, the incredibly clever idea of the pencil trick which works on several levels, holding the gun so it won't fire, the amazingly improvised hospital scene and finally his philosophy of chaos and anarchy that is hard to disagree with.
3. The action set pieces are incredibly well put together and happen frequently but don't seem out of place.
4. Religious symbolism for Harvey Dent and comments on the hidden anarchic chaos of society. The film does this not by viewing all of scientists as baby-eating evil people with no sympathy or niceness at all (Titanic does this with the higher class on the ship) but it views them as human with the simple human want to live and be safe, regardless of the liveliness and safeness of others.
5. Graphically un-graphic. As any horror fan will tell you: the suggestion of something haunting or violent is much more effective than explicitly showing it, as the human mind is brilliant at creating the most violent preconceptions possible. There is no gore and blood is only seen I think around 3 times but the more horrific things in the movie really seem to effect you. The quick, 10 frame shot of a knife protruding from a shoe, followed by a minor kick where the knife can't even be seen to a person's stomach makes the viewer instantly feel danger and fear.
6. Excellent pacing. No scene ever drags on.
7. The ending is not a boring happy one, it is more realistic.
Although I seem to fixate on flaws, don't think that The Dark Knight is not worth your time. It is a classic in modern cinema and deserved to be seen by all.