Batman movies have been rather interesting. Forget Adam West and the original TV series I'm starting from Keaton and going beyond. The first two were dark and Gothic and quite frankly perfectly watchable. Then they dropped it down a few notches and made Batman Forever followed by the god awful Batman & Robin and the whole Batman movie thing had gone in a quite frankly painful to watch direction.

Then they started from scratch with Batman Begins which I thought was p*ss poor to say then very least and seemed to miss the whole point of "The" Batman for me.

Then The Dark Knight arrived, the movie started well due to the performance of Ledger as the Joker and I will agree he did the role justice and was very memorable but his death made him a martyr and the movie road on that wave beyond the success it would have originally have.

I think of the Dark Knight and I think of the bomb scene with the civilians and the cons, beyond that I struggle to think of one single scene thats beyond generic.

As far as Batman movies are concerned its the best one since Burton had the reigns but don't believe the hype, a movie shouldn't be carried on the back of one single actor...especially if a large percentage of that weight is carried because of his tragic passing.

The Dark Knight is perfectly watchable but Heath Ledgers fantastic performance in my eyes is the films downfall in the grand scheme of things.