The Butchers of Gotham City

Rating: 2/10 (5 August 2008)

After seeing this movie...I thought of a more appropriate title...instead of "Dark Knight", I would have called it...
"The Butchers of Gotham City" ...to honor of the director, writers and actors... of course...
This movie is a waste of time...a whole lot of time...at least on a DVD you can fast forward and protect what little is left of your brain.
Question...aren't movies supposed to make at least some small attempt to resemble an "art form"...??? The director of this movie apparently doesn't think so... or much of the concept that "less is more"...nope...not Nolan.
Sometimes by trying to do too much you can end up with nothing...like trying to jump a crevasse that is 5 feet too wide...
You know you have problems when you start to cringe inside when it's imminent that a particular character will re-appear on screen... and you realize that you will have to sit through another minute of a one-dimensional performance that you have already seen a few hundred times already...
Yep...I'm talking about Keith Ledger's joker...his career really ended up there on Brokeback Mountain...or should have.
Where was Jack Nicholson when we really needed him? And what happened to the plot... where was that darned infernal plot?...
I guess if you hide the plot you keep people from leaving the theater in droves, because they will wait for it all to make sense in the end...but that never happened.
Well...maybe I am indeed being too harsh...after all, this movie was apparently written during the writer's strike...they should have just paid them what they wanted...
Maybe different editing would have saved this one...some attempt at editing might have helped, it certainly couldn't have hurt ...they really should have spent a few more $$$ and edited the thing, but they needed to go back and take a class in Plot 101 first.
On a scale of 1-10, I give it a 2...and my generosity is only for the "...watch me make a pencil disappear..." line...
Do yourselves a favor...catch that scene on you tube...it's the only scene in the film worth watching.
TC