The Dark Knight Review or Heath Ledger's Great Performance Wasted in a Bad Movie

Rating: 5/10 (24 November 2018)

Heath Ledger gives a great performance as the legendary Joker. He is funny and scary; all maniacal as he corrupts/kills people. Despite this, whenever he is not onscreen we deal with crappy Batman performance by Christian Bale who sounds like he needs Halls for his throat along with a sappy love triangle. Two-Face appears in the movie but he is killed almost immediately and thus a waste of a great villain. The film tries to be cutting edge via references to the US War on Terror and government surveillance but this not only makes the movie look like it was trying too hard but also makes the movie look dated. Batman and Robin, as silly as that movie was, aged better by at least being a comedy! The stupidity of the ending with Batman taking the blame for Harvey's could have been avoided if by simply blaming it on the Joker since it was technically his fault anyway and Alfred being against tracking the Joker by mass hacking people's cell phones is stupid and just a shoe-horned reference to US government spying at the time. This movie could have been great but the only thing great about the movie is Heath Ledger's performance.