9.0??? You must be joking!

Rating: 2/10 (9 August 2013)

After watching all three movies I must come to the conclusion that this is the weakest part of the three and that my initial thoughts of this movie were right this movie tries too hard!
My first problem the main villain(who has more to do with The Crow than The Joker)besides a gag or two isn't funny(for all the over the top and campy acting of Nicholson his performance is much more true to the character and maybe even more menacing than Ledgers interpretation)and though it's a solid performance by Ledger(it's one of the good points in this movie)it isn't that impressive.
The city has nothing to do with Gotham City whereas in part one you got the distinctive feel of a Gothic City in the second and third movie they seem to forget why Gotham City is called that way(it's more Techno-punk or Tech-noir than Gothic IMO)
It takes itself way too serious and here lies the problem if you want us to take it seriously than there has to be something as logical plots and story-line.And you have to give us more than one dimensional characters if you want us to give a damn about them(and it's not that the talent is not there with a cast like this,but it's rarely used( example Gyllenhaal)
IMHO Watchmen does a far better job and maybe because it has that seriousness in it's source-material whereas Batman has not(not in it's original form that is)which explains idiotic clues,like the scene with investigation of the bullet(It's The Joker NOT The Riddler),and inconsistencies in the characters e.g. The jokers says that he's like a mad dog chasing cars and acts psychotic while everything he does is very carefully planned far in advance that you have be rocket-scientist to plan like he does(if The Joker stands for chaos then it takes an awful lot meticulous planning and order to create chaos).And the transition from Harvey Dent into Two-face is plain silly.
The score; somebody put Zimmer in a straight-jacket please has that man ever heard of the expression "less is more" important parts of the movie are totally spoiled by the far to present score.And then the giving of musical c(l)ues when something is going to happen,as if we are idiots(when you hear the beehive-like sound)becomes quite annoying.
Maybe Two-face is actually the right comparison for this movie it's neither fish nor flesh it wants to be a great action-adventure comic - based movie on one side and a serious study into justice,power,chaos, terror and control on the other and that gives the whole movie a an artificial feel and it becomes frustrating when scenes for the sake of making a point interrupt the flow of the movie.
all in all it tries to be two things at once and fails at both.
2/10