Fantastic Blockbuster, Decent Film.

Rating: 7/10 (11 January 2015)

What I loved: The darkness, psychologically and tonally. Heath Ledger's performance, it is incredibly impressive, and completely surprising. The Music. The unpredictability of the plot, it makes for edge of your seat viewing. Bringing Batman into the real world, even more so than Begins.
My issues: The scene where he can see through the walls, and strings them all up by ropes. Thought it was rubbish. Everyone else's performance. They weren't on the same level, and it's noticeable. Twoface to me was unnecessary, and almost wasted. Slightly too long, not so long that it made it bad, but it would have had more impact if it was 20 minutes shorter and had a bit of a plot reshuffle. For me a little cluttered, maybe one two many big set pieces (The Building Blowing up, the attempt on the mayor, the car chase, the two ships, the opening heist etc), the film was really at it's best in the times between set pieces (Joker's torture scenes, Joker's exchanges with the gangsters, Ruby the size of a Tangerine).
For a Blockbuster, especially a superhero blockbuster this was absolutely excellent. Heath Ledger's performance can be talked about with the greats I believe, but the film as a whole cannot.
Eight out of Ten