Three hours later and I am still in Awe!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (19 July 2008)

If there ever was a perfect movie, this wasn't it - there are some scenes that are just a bit too cheesy and one actors who performance is a bit too much dizzy schoolgirl, and there is something about it that makes it clash somewhat with the first movie...however there never was a perfect movie but this was the closest I have seen...it is a masterpiece of fear and depression - an opera of violence, yet very few drops of blood, a tale of flawed heroes and pure evil - and Two seconds of hope and faith in humanity that make it grand.
I can't believe the best movie I have ever seen, has been a "comic book movie" that's not even accurate anymore - the story has evolved to what Batman, the master detective, has always been - a Mob Drama. At it's core is Ledger's Joker - a brilliant performance. When actors want to play a psychopath - this is who they want to play. Hell, real psychopaths wish they were this cold, this insane, this evil. I cannot get his performance out of my head - it was simply brilliant - give him the Oscar.
Although, a villain is only as good as his hero, and this movie has two...Bale's Batman is dark and insane is Wayne is pompous and suave and seems effortlessly to be what "The Dark Night" would translate to in reality. Eckhart's Harvey Dent is pure plot device...white knight to vengeful killer...but wonderfully executed. The rest of the cast is wonderful as...with the exception of the Dawes character (not bad just the weakest in the film) The story, the plot, its a grand tale of a murderous terrorist holding a city hostage and it incredible...I said Oscar earlier fr ledger, I think Oscar for the Dark Knight as well - we need to reward cinema this great!