For all it's A list star cast and big name director it's still only a batman movie and at 140 minutes long is a flabby Batman movie to boot. I recently reviewed it at home and watched it in two sittings which made the experience a lot more enjoyable, or should I say a lot less uncomfortable than the cinema.

There's still really big plot holes though, like don't prisoners get searched before the police lock them up, pass through a metal detector or something? As the plot depends on that not happening we just have to accept that they don't.

Christian Bale gives a better performance this time out, his first effort had far too much Patrick Bateman in it for my liking. I found Heath Ledger's performance a bit too OTT while the Nolan regulars of Freeman, Caine and Oldman give solid professional support.

But I revert to my original point, it's a Batman movie. Comic books are for kids who aren't bright enough to read proper books and comic book movies are for Peter Pans who never grew up. This may be as good as comic book movies get but it will never get more than 6/10 imo.