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Boy, what a surprise. If you’ve been keeping up with the trailers, then you’d know that this movie has generated a lot of hype – too bad it doesn’t live up to it. Let me explain: the beginning was fantastic. It showed that Batman wasn’t a dancing homosexual and that he has some pretty nasty and evil antagonists.
Joker was surprising in a good way: I love how he pretends that he’s going to perform some magic with a pencil, but instead just pounds a guy’s head into the pencil and pretends it was magic. Not only that, but he’s actually crazy. In Michael Keaton’s Batman movies, the Joker was insane, but he didn’t have the history or the looks to prove it.
The Joker from Michael Keaton’s films. Courtesy of The List Universe.
However, as good Heath Ledger’s performance was – and it was excellent – the movie was dragging out the battle between Joker and Batman far too long. After Joker escaped from jail, I was just wondering when the movie was over. Everything before that was excellent, but everything after that was waiting.
Another thing that got me wondering was Two Face. I’m still trying to decide whether or not he was all that needed. He was awesome, no doubt about that, but was he needed? After all, if it wasn’t for Batman, Harvey Dent would not have prosecuted all those criminals. It may be 549 criminals, but it was Batman’s doing (speaking of which, the way Batman escaped from Hong Kong was badass). After everything Batman did for Harvey Dent, they agree that Dent is the greatest of the three?! Preposterous! I could be biased towards Batman, that’s a possibility.
Verdict: a good film — nay, an excellent. Just don’t expect a good ending.
