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Rating: 7/10 (6 August 2008)

First of all, I need to point out that I'm not a Batman fan, or Superman, or Marvel, may be a Vertigo, D.C. yes, but I try to be totally neutral when I review a movie.
I have watched all Batman movies, including Batman Begins. But I find myself hard to explain what is the purpose of making a new Batman movie. Well Batman Begins point out that Batman must have his background history, how Batman became Batman himself. But I found Batman Begins with a lot of failures, like: the action sequence camera, some special effects are cheap, and it's not even a good movie. Not a masterpiece at all. And I found myself trying to digest how the daily and actual public of cinema ignores what a real masterpiece could be, it's a shame how we have ignore the epic work of real masterpiece, the hard dedication it takes to do a tremendous film.
The Dark Knight points out to be more realistic than the other Batman movies, but not darker, since Batman Returns it's know as the darker one of all Batman films. Batman has been changed from a 60's family show, to a darker series of movies but the Dark Knight cannot make the plot of a millionaire dressed like a bat, fighting against villains and crazy maniac realistic, because the plot doesn't need to be realistic. Batman in a realistic way it's having another hero, not Batman. So then the point of making another Batman movie because it's going to be realistic it's meaningless. May be the movie it has a serious point, butnot really.
The acting was overall good, but some of the acting in the film it's feels like it's natural, not hard to act, it's just simple. The action sequences are really good, or at least better than Batman Begins, but there is not enough action to really name the movie an action movie, the special effects where the best part. To have a better knowledge of the characters, you need to watch Batman Begins, but there is no background history of the main antagonist: The Joker. You can't consider this movie as an action-present movie, where the only things that matters is what you see trough the entire film because the last movie would be meaningless, but it's not so cleaver what are the real characters purposes either. Also the personality of all the characters are too simple or too complex (I mean, they could be a lot of options of what is the real meaning of the character's actions), that you get eventually confused. May be this was an attempt of making the movie more realistic (with different thoughts, feelings and values over a confused mind), but having a personality like the Joker, and having a realistic personality of Batman it really doesn't fit.
Another thing is that there is no blood where it should be in the movie, which is not realistic, and I'm not saying a movie need blood in order to be good, because I enjoyed watching physiological terror like Rosemary Baby, showing horror movies doesn't need to have action violence, with blood in order to be good, but the lack of blood it just points that the movie can't be realistic, because realistic means aggressive too. The dialog had changed into something different from a Super Hero movie.
So at the end it leaves me the question of: What is this movie?
Not realistic, but not really a child movie either. Not comedy but not so serious. Not Super Hero, But not Hero movie either. Not drama movie.
I'm sure producers and the staff in general worked hard to bring the best material in this movie, you can see that, but it seems they tried to satisfy all kind of public and because of that it doesn't have a solid structure to describe it. May be they where so concentrated in the special effects they didn't take care a lot of those things, either way you can't skip out those mistakes, having a movie without an structure, it's having a man without a vertebral spine, and by structure I mean a purpose, more than satisfy Batman's fans.
My conclusion is: this is a Blockbuster, an "ok" movie with some great special effects but without an structure to make it solid, a meaning to make ourselves concentrate on that specific point like comedy, or drama. And I'm sure, this is not a masterpiece.