"A sweet surpise but Nolan made efforts worth applauding to get it through"

Great acting, great action, great plot, great movie!

This movie is really dark. Not in the sense that it's scary but that there is very little lighting in the film. Heath Ledger gave an excellent performance of the Joker character. He captured the essence of insanity and he evoked that in his acting... (read more) This movie is really dark. Not in the sense that it's scary but that there is very little lighting in the film. Heath Ledger gave an excellent performance of the Joker character. He captured the essence of insanity and he evoked that in his acting. Still, there was more I wanted to hear from Joker. I'm not saying I didn't like the film. Just that there is a line between insanity and arch-enemy that seemed to lean towards the insane side of the Joker a bit more. I would have liked to see some instinctive I dunno words/actions between the two rivals.

A great Blockbuster....
One of the late Heath Ledgar`s best acted movies............
A not to miss movie....

Easily one of the very best superhero films ever made.

A masterpiece? Quite possibly. If it was possible, this film surpassed the original, "Batman Begins", a film which IMHO ticked every box for an excellent and near perfect movie, but on Friday night, the bar was positively raised.

Comic book blockb... (read more) A masterpiece? Quite possibly. If it was possible, this film surpassed the original, "Batman Begins", a film which IMHO ticked every box for an excellent and near perfect movie, but on Friday night, the bar was positively raised.

Comic book blockbuster meets "Heat", Chris Nolan has now delivered a very different yet progressive take on the same genre while almost reinventing it, in a way not dissimilar from James Cameron and T2.
Clearly not afraid to explore the world of Batman, this was definatly on of, if not the most thoughtful and intelligent Blockbuster to make its way out of Hollywood in years, though it does have to fight off competition from likes of Mission Impossible, Batman Begins, T2 & Heat.

In short though, it doesn't really matter how you qualify it. This movie had a stellar cast, great music and wonderful direction from a director who has only had one dud in "Insomnia", and many would disagree with that.

Role on Batman 3...


A COMMENT ON THE BLU RAY EDITION

It has since come to my attention that the BLU RAY version has a varying aspect ratio, with the 35mm elements presented in 2.40:1 whilst the Imax elements are presented in 1.77:1. This is scandalous in my opinion and certainly damages the cinematic experience. Add the fact that the correct Imax aspect ratio should have been 1.44:1, what is the point?

The DVD edition has the full Imax scenes in the correct 1.44:1 ratio as a special feature, but the fact that they have been shoe-horned into the main feature regardless is ridiculous and until this changes, there will be no Hi Def edition of this film in my collection.

BLU RAY is supposed to offer MORE choice and the option of branching the Imax scenes into the main feature would have been nice but I don't go to the cinema to get shown a film with a varying aspect ratio and I don't expect it on DVD/BLU RAY either.

Even better than Batman Begins. All the rest of the Batman's from years ago look shite compared to the two new ones now.

It's the standard-bearer for the school of comic-book movies that confuses pompousness with seriousness and popular mechanics for drama.

You come away impressed, oppressed, provoked, and beaten down, holding on to Ledger's squirrelly incandescence as a beacon in the darkness.

[Ledger gives] a fine performance regardless, and I wish the movie around it were more deserving.

It's jam-packed with flawlessly designed set-pieces and skullduggery, sure, but it's also shrouded in grim portent, overlaid with a filigree of despair, and, for good measure, covered in a patina of dire consequence.

As much as this is Ledger's movie, that should not diminish the notable accomplishments of other key cast members.