Worth the Wait!!!

Rating: 8/10 (21 July 2008)

I went into this movie (which was completely full btw) with high expectations and that's exactly what I got!!! It was amazing!!! Plus it was so much better than Batman Begins, which was in my opinion one of the worst superhero movies of all time. The special effects were incredible, especially in the scene where the Joker is chasing down Harvey Dent and Batman makes the Joker's huge truck tip over and crash! Also, the makeup for Harvey Dent when he becomes Two Face was great and it looked so real. The makeup for the Joker was also great and added a lot to the character. You really thought he was a psychopath and you could not tell that that was Heath Ledger. But that was one of many awesome things about this movie.
The cast of this movie couldn't have been more perfect. Christian Bale made you really feel what Bruce Wayne was going through and made a very good and tough Batman. The chemistry between him and Heath Ledger (the Joker) was incredible..especially in the interrogation scene between them. Heath Ledger almost scared me to death as the Joker..so I guess that means he did a good job lol. About all this Oscar buzz he's getting..I don't know if Ledger's performance was Oscar worthy. He could however get like a memory Oscar or a lifetime achievement Oscar. Looking back, I think that Ledger's Joker was the best thing about the movie. He could do both comedy and villainy so easily and he gave some of the funniest lines in the movie..like the whole "I can make this pencil disappear" scene and when he said to Batman "You complete me" (He was from Brokeback Mountain, so that's why it's funny!) Aaron Eckhart was mush better than I expected. I thought he would be like his character in Thank You For Smoking, which was kinda plain. But he brought a lot of emotion and passion to Harvey Dent and Two Face. Two Face was not as scary as The Joker....but that's OK! Maggie Gyllenhaal (who is one of my favorite actresses) was SOOO good as Rachel Dawes...and I'm so happy she replaced that no talent lowlife Katie Holmes. With Gyllenhaal, I could really feel like I was seeing a real Rachel and a strong woman, unlike Holmes. Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine gave a lot of very funny lines too and they were great.
OK...there were some bad things. I did not get how Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) was brought back to life and how they did that. I also didn't like that Rachel died (part of which cuz i loved Gyllenhaal so much)..but I guess they needed it in order to bring in Two Face. Overall, there were not a lot of bad things. Everything was amazing! It was a very long movie..but I guess super cool action-packed superhero movies like this should be! Whoever hasn't seen this movie yet...Definitely SEE IT!! It is soo worth all the hype that it's gotten and it's a must must see!