hyped garbage

Rating: 1/10 (18 February 2009)

This movie is seriously over hyped crap. From a completely technical view it has some merits. It's well filmed, the shots and cutting are phenomenal. The plot has some merit although there was a whole of one thing I didn't see coming throughout the whole film. The one scene I enjoyed is on the boats, a deep look into humanity's fragile tempers. Christian Bale is terrible in his role of batman. His voice is so forced, he makes it way too gravelly and just botches the whole thing. He allows absolutely no subtlety and the love story angle is so contrived. God he was terrible. Oooh now we get to the poster boy Heath Ledger... OK I do have to grant that he did a fairly good job in his portrayal of the joker, his lines are well delivered and his acting is good. But this idea that he is now the holy grail of acting is just stupid. He died so now everyone feels like they can't critique him. When did death make you amazing? Fine then Hitler was a saint cause he died, we aren't allowed to say he messed up.... ever. He did a good job but there have been far better actors. I feel the writing was almost as important to the character as his acting, doesn't matter how good you act if the writing sucks the movie sucks. On to a one Aaron Eckhart, decent acting. Far better in Thank you for smoking but that's besides the point. I don't have much to say other than he started really strong and finished off pretty weak. After one of the plot twists his acting just gets mediocre.
All in all this movie would have been really good, I mean phenomenal if it weren't for all of the hype around it. I saw it in theaters a day or so after opening and enjoyed it.... until about the 4 millionth "why so serious?" half an hour after it was over. It was good but it belongs in maybe the low hundreds on the top 250 list not top 10.