Saw it last nite, midnight showing, Simply put........ OUTSTANDING!!!!!!! Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker blows Jack Nicolson's out the water. Great story theme, Best Batman movie thus far!!!!!
I had really high hopes for this movie due to all the positive reviews and such, so maybe that was the problem. I was disappointed. It was at least an hour too long, the action scenes were boring, there were no new cool gadgets, etc, .and generally nothing special.
What was up with the ridiculous voice Bale put on when being Batman? I don’t recall him doing that in Batman Begins, which I actually enjoyed far more. That voice he put on didn’t work at all.
Two, the leading lady was not very attractive. In fact, kinda fugly. The richest and best looking guy in town, and the Mr hunk blond DA can’t do better then that???!! Here she is for those who didn’t see the movie:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2447565/Gyllenhaals-struggle.htmlLedger pretty much made the movie. In fact, for me, the only thing that kept this movie from being a total dog, was the collection of great actors that made the human element work at least, such as Ledger and Gary Oldman and othes. Other then that, I was very disappointed. The movie's attempts at exploring the nature of human behavior and morality and such was all well and fine, but I don't go to Batman movies to explore human morality...
I was with 4 people, and we all had the same response to the movie, so I knew it was not just me being ultra hard on the movie (which I am in general) and we all had the same “this is what got such great reviews?” comments on the way out. My review is, wait ‘till it hits video…