Review – The Dark Knight

Here’s yet another example of a movie that never stood a chance to live up to its own hype. Heath Ledger’s final performance is emblematic: he does a solid job as the Joker, but it’s not the greatest acting job in all human history. Likewise the rest of the picture has its moments but overall just isn’t anything to write home about. I was particularly disappointed that Maggie Gyllenhaal didn’t turn out to be dramatically better than Katie Holmes in the role of Bruce Wayne’s romantic interest, though blame should most properly be laid at the script’s doorstep for that failure. Though this is by no means a bad movie, it’s just not as good as it should have been. With this cast, the Batman Begins approach to the characters, and Batman’s two best nemeses in the mix, The Dark Knight should have been the movie that critics said it was. Mildly amusing