I come never to expect much from comic movies or superhero movies or superhero comic movies or whatever they are called ? However this was a superbly entertaining, brilliantly acted film. However it must be said that the story lacked a little, nothing much seemed to happen it was mostly just the joker killing people and threatening to do so.

The story has the same theme as most batman movie in my opinion which is why this movie cannot be labelled a classic and also why the hype has blown this one out of proportion. In my opinion BATMAN is the best batman film ever as it had a sense of comic book about it and was not to serious. I am not sure if a movie about a grown man dressed in a bat suit should be made the way BEGINS and THE DARK KNIGHT were made, but then again they had to do something after the car crash that was BATMAN AND ROBIN.

Now on to why exactly it has become such a big movie and as i write this is sitting at no 3 on the IMDb's top 250, having been no 1 for some time before that. For me it is because of MR Heath Ledger. He is simply outstanding in this film and with out him it is unlikely the same amount of success would have followed. I do however believe there is a certain factor of his death that is lifting this movie to heights it would never have reached but that does not change how good he is in this film.

The dark knight just simply is not as good as many people are saying it is in my opinion and i think the 10 out of 10 button is used before thinking these days as I personally would never give a film 10 unless it blew me away and I'm sure many people give ten's out a lot.

7 out of 10