Very good movie. Not Nolan's masterpiece

Rating: 8/10 (16 June 2009)

The Presitge was more interesting and better. Memento was more interesting...and probably better. Although I'm not as much of a Batman aficionado as some, this is my favorite Batman, and I've seen them all.
This is a very long movie without a wasted second. When you start to think a second is wasted in a Nolan movie, your mind might think "what is it I missed during that second". It's likely that you will discover a new perspective of that second in subsequent viewings.
Enunciation. I've watched this movie 4 times now and I still don't understand more than 60% of Oldman's words. It's a strange contrast with the guy who played the Joker who was apparently an Australian and he played his character with extreme American-English enunciation as if that was a conscious trait that the character was supposed to have. Much of Batman's words ( but not Wayne's ) were similarly malenunciated like Oldman's words. Maybe it was just me, not sure.
The Joker was the best character in this movie. I'm glad it won an award for the dead actor, he deserved it.
The action and fight sequences were sometimes too hyper-edited for my taste. That is a problem I have with many movies these days. I wish they would consider the perspective of the viewer and give that viewer a perch from which to take in the action instead of making a chaotic mess where they hope to disguise the seams. The viewing public is close to becoming too sophisticated for this sort of thing and lots of movies that have used the tactic will be archaic and unwatchable in the near future.