A lot of gold, a little brown.

Rating: 8/10 (27 December 2008)

I go into new movies thinking they aren't going to be much, unless the trailer is good...which today, they usually aren't. Honestly, I don't see too many new movies but my brother kept raving about TDK, but I didn't take him seriously because he lives for comics and likes, or loves, every movie based on a comic. He swore by Spider Man, Daredevil, Hellboy, etc. and I thought they were all crap. He had me watch Iron Man and I actually liked it, but I absolutely hated all the Batman films so I thought this would be turd too. I hate to admit I was wrong, TDK actually ALMOST deserves its 9 rating, I think it should be an 8, but oh well.
Now why would I give TDK an 8 and not a 9 or 10? Batman's voice is why, it's the worst voice in any movie I've ever seen, it's like a mix between Triple H and a diesel truck. I get that Bruce Wayne would have to mask his voice but come on, why couldn't they make it sound more like the voice in the Batman animated show from years back, the voice was good in that. I knock another point off for the video-game-like Bat-cycle tricks, a small complaint but it's one I have. Oh, one more complaint, which I honestly should knock it down to a 7 for, little to no blood. Many scenes that would have made great kill shots and the camera cuts away, do us a favor and make the next one R rated.
I had to roll my eyes every time I heard about how good Heath did as the Joker, but he was really great...though I thought the "why so serious", why did that become a catchphrase?, scene was one of the weakest in the film.
Overall a great film, even for people like me that hate superhero films. Everyone treating Maggie Gyllenhaal like she was the best looking woman in the whole city was pretty laughable, but it's easily overlooked. I wonder how future installments will fair without the amazing Ledger returning to his role of the Joker.