2 movies packed in 1 !?

Rating: 1/10 (19 August 2008)

I wouldn't say this is a bad movie, it's still good entertainment compared to other 21th centuries block busters that fail in every possible way. But it has NOTHING to do in the Top 250. Sorry IMDb, kids who know nothing about cinema took over your ranking system.
The main grudges I'd have about this movie would be:
1. It is way too long!!!! It'd been a while since I last experienced the feeling of expecting the credits to begin each time a scene would end. I was like "OK, then, the end?" and the movie would keep going into some nuke the fridge like action scene that has nothing to do with the main plot, as if the directors told themselves "People paying money to go to the theater want to have bang for their bucks so let's give them 56 explosions, 87 wrecked cars and 77 dead guys" (fictive count, but you get the idea) Toward the end I was completely out of the movie, focusing on not peeing in my pants.
2. What's with 2 face !? I didn't know about 2 face making an appearance in this episode. I thought it was all about the Jocker VS The World. Boy I was surprised to see this coming straight out of nowhere right in the middle of the movie. But hey, at that time I thought "nice way to introduce 2 face, could it be the next batman they make will have him as the main villain?" So I was kinda expecting a "The End" screen when, say, the Jocker sets him free from the hospital so that the movie is still coherent with the others. Like, "OK this time batman half won, the jocker is introduced as its arch ennemy and there's another freak out there to spice it up, the end, to be continued..." But the movies keeps going and going and going and going............ ALTHOUGH IT'S A TOTALLY DIFFERENT STORY!! It's as if they packed 2 movies in 1, seriously they should have called it "Batman Vs The Jocker featuring 1 extra villain"
Of course, there's also the "2 face is dead" thing when we all know he's coming back a few episodes later. I can't understand why they made it that way. It would have been so much easier to have for example the 2 of them drop into water and only have batman to reach the shore leaving a question mark over 2 face's fate. Completely cliché, sure, but at least they're not killing someone to have him reappear in a sequel (oh hold on, maybe batman and gordon and all the cops can't tell the difference between a corpse and a living fellow?)
I could go on forever on all the flaws like:
_ cell phone crap (yeaaaah right OK it's batman but still.... and like 1 guy alone could trace millions in real time...)
_ stupid prisoner's dilemma in the boats (since when criminals have morals?)
_ "I burn money 'cause I don't care but I rob banks" stance of the Joker
_ the batcave is now located in an almost empty room in the docks
_ alfred burns his master's letters (come on, why so serious alfred?)
_ batman is strong with men but weak with dogs (where is the batkick at?)
_ batman's awful voice (puberty at 35 between Begins and TDK?)
_ the joker has no plan but everything goes as planned every time
_ the batpunch carpets big fellas but the jocker can handle it no problem
_ crime syndicates give away their money to keep to some Chinese guy nobody knows, trusting him to keep it safe (since when criminals trust each other over money concerns?)
_ gotham changed a lot between 2 episodes...
and on and on ...
I repeat this is NOT a bad movie itself, it's just WAY overrated. It's just another action movie that you go see to put your brain on low power mode for a couple of hours.
I would have put a 5 or 6 on it but we need to counterbalance the tens that cinema uneducated dumb kids put.