Well I finally watched The Dark Knight. And I'm left in total disbelief that this movie could be rated so highly. It was a standard action flick. No cleverness, no 'wow' moments, no twists, no plot. Nothing. Every scene was standard. A typical scene is the Joker confronting a group of bad guys, giving them a speech about how he's a better criminal than them, killing a couple of them, and then leaving by-way of a trick device. And Batman's scenes were all like this too. 2 1/2 hours of this. It got very boring.

That pretty-much sums up my review. There's really not much else to talk about. Everything was standard, and it got boring. The only reason I even gave it a '3' was because it's a comic-book movie, so I gave it a free-pass on not making sense. For instance, Batman and the Joker can both pull the perfect device out of their pants at any given time, and they can both get anywhere (through security) at any time, without any logical explanation for it. If it wasn't a comic-book movie, I'd have rated it a '2'.

Lastly, I'll just speculate as to why this movie is rated so highly. Don't discount my review because of this, as I'm not saying this last part of speculation is the truth. It's just guessing. I'm guessing because I can't fathom why this movie is rated so highly. There has to be some other factors involved. Perhaps it's:

An pre-existing overwhelming love of Batman.

A pre-existing love of Heath Ledger because of Brokeback Mountain (which endeared him to movie critics)....and sentimentality following his death.

The 'all-star' cast. There's bound to be someone you like in this movie. Everyone loves Morgan Freeman, for instance. He's tossed-in this movie for no apparent reason.

The 'message' that there's a blurry line between good and evil. Movie critics love that message. Me....I found the Joker's constant speeches about this to get very tiring after a while. And his voice was annoying.