Did not feel like a true Batman movie

Rating: 7/10 (19 November 2008)

I start with screaming "Yohooo!!! OverhYYYyyyped!!! Next I feel sorry for the young generation, not only do they think it is the best film ever, they even think it is better than other batman movies. Or, they are right and I feel so very very old and tired.
So I think I will not try to analyze it in anyway but just fire away and say what made me not like it so very much, just thinking it was a good movie.
Batmans motorcycle, one big fallos, you can see that it does not have agile handling characteristic's, and Batman's toys are about agility, power and flexibility, that motorcycle look plain dangerous to use.
Batmans car, all the earlier ones have been better and more believable, this one looked like a hummer, not like a high-tech fighting vehicle that can take damage, it looked like it could only deal out damage but it itself looked just as vulnerable as an ordinary hummer.
The Joker. The joker was physically too strong, he could be Batman himself. I think the Joker is supposed not to be stronger than you and me, what he wants is to roam free and so he have to try and get rid of whatever stands in his way, primarily Batman. Knowing his limitations he have to use his mind to trap Batman at preplanned encounters. He should also be a coward depending how you see it and should surround himself with goons and just as batman is about to get him he escapes laughing, cause the escape is also preplanned, and all of it to make Batman look like a fool.
In this movie he makes some pretty unbelievable attacks in public in the midst of like 500 policemen without using laughing-gas, green gas, purple gas or itchy popcorn. What I am saying is there can be some humor in the midst of violence, just look at James Bond, Die Hard etc etc etc, this movie is too serious and not good at that either.
The Joker was just not "in character" or whatever you say in English.
Also some problem with the script also I just didn't get into the movie. If it was supposed to be scary, or funny or whatever I did not get it.
I think the solution would have been to make the movie more "Joker'ish", give Joker toys that he have made, then maybe some of Batman's toys like making all cellphones in entire Gotham become one big sonar, unbelievable things like that, the they could perhaps become more believable if the movie would have tried to distance itself from reality some more.
The Joker was way too cruel and not one bit funny. But I liked technical trick with TwoFace's face, was a good trick there I think.
As it is now it feels serious and without any point. Also, if they broken so many "codes", is what we have seen here the future of Batman movies? If so, no thank you, count me out.
Still ... I end up giving it a "7".