Retelling of two Batman movies

Rating: 5/10 (20 July 2012)

This is really two Batman movies that were previously made (Batman 1989); Batman Forever 1995)and rehashed, with the addition of Scarecrow to help promote it. Just a different flavor of icing on the same cake. This time we got a grungy Joker without any class and an awful rasping voice Batman trying to seem bad. The only thing I like is Gary Oldman as a younger Gordon before he became commissioner and the closer to reality looking Two-Face. Somehow both writer and director always likes to put the audience in a junky looking city as if construction wasn't completed and or run down part of the community. Instead of psychotic Joker we are given a pyromaniac in this retold version, who likes to set things on fire and blowup stuff. Heath Ledger is a very good actor but again I don't like this take on the Joker. Aaron Eckhart was a better Harvey Dent/Two Face than the over acting showmanship of the previous one.