Pure Propaganda

Rating: 1/10 (22 July 2008)

Why The Dark Knight sucks:
It is basically akin to Triumph of the Will; pure propaganda. Batman = George W. Bush (or any shady, uber-rich government official). As Bruce Wayne, he must portray himself as a spoiled, bumbling fool, who boozes and womanizes and is just a big walking joke. As Batman, he can use any kind of destructive method to take down the bad guy (in this case, the Joker is often called a terrorist), including using billions of dollars of Wayne Enterprises money to secretly implant 3D-sonar-imaging devices into a wave of new cell phones that flood the market and consequently give him the ability to create a 3D map of the city that can locate and track anyone. His closest friends, who know his secret identity, think this tracking map is unethical, but he justifies it by saying that he must use any means necessary to take this one down. Does any of this sound familiar?
Besides all of this, the movie feels like that 15-minute montage of super-heroic feats from every FIRST superhero movie... sssssssssttttttttttrrrrrrrreeeeeeettttttccccchhhhhheeeeedddddd ooooouuuuuutttttt to 2 1/2 hours! It starts out too talky with a bunch of mob bosses (among them Eric Roberts) wriggling out from under D.A. Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) in court and throws a few unnecessary story lines up in the air (that don't get resolved until much later... and poorly at that), then strings together action set-pieces (that all seem like leftovers from a Die Hard movie) for the next 2 hours, then finally wraps it up with characteristically cheesy "the fight will continue" dialogue that every superhero movie ends with.
So it's boring, PLUS it's poorly done apart from that.
SAVE YOUR MONEY!