Heath Ledger plays Lewis Black

Rating: Null/10 (21 July 2008)

Dark Knight is 2.5+ hours of happy, yummy goodness and the entire cast is stellar. Having said that, I think Ledger's performance - though fantastic - is overrated. Now, hear me out here ... he's absolutely wonderful and great but Oscar-worthy? C'mon ... if you slapped some makeup and green hair dye onto Lewis Black the movie would have been EXACTLY the same. The best part about the Dark Knight is it will show Marvel Studios how wrong they were to cut out Ed Norton's contributions to Incredible Hulk thinking fanboys wanted more action and less character development. That's the sort of idiotic reasoning I'd expect from George Lucas but, thankfully, Christopher Nolan wouldn't dream of giving us. If Incredible Hulk hadn't cut 40 minutes of dialogue and drama, it wouldn't have sprinted to the second-run dollar cinemas and might have had as an impressive a showing as Dark Knight.