If you are going to see "The Dark Knight" it'd be better to bring your thinking caps rather then your boxing gloves. As this movie is more of a thinker then your normal superhero fighting a villain till the villain is defeated and the city is safe. I was expecting that walking into the theater and even more after it started with a bank robbery. Then I settled down and noticed it slowed down and Batman was not in the spotlight all that much. The main plot to this movie is more about the Joker and how he became evil and he was sending the message that everyone was equal and no one was any better then he was and that if anyone else had the same childhood he had that they could become just as evil as him.
While I was watching the movie I was wondering where is Batman, where is the fighting scene where he stops the Joker's madness. It never came so I continued thinking and it continued into the next day, where was the big scene, then I realized this movie was not an average action, superhero movie like "Ironman", this wasn't about Batman saving the City and killing and ending the Joker. Think about it, all superhero movies' titles are the name of the superhero in the movie. Ironman, Superman, and Spider-Man to name the big ones. In a sense it was named after the Batman, but it wasn't straight up, just like the plot. The plot of this movie was about the Joker and his reasons for being evil and him trying to prove that no one was better then him even though he was evil because he knew if anyone else was in his shoes they would be the same way as him.
Batman even had doubts in the movie about continuing to be Batman and almost gave it up. This movie still has my mind a little boggled about the plot and i need to watch it again when it comes out on DVD. So remember as your walking out of your house to go to the theater to leave your boxing gloves at home and bring your thinking cap because if you bring your boxing gloves instead you might go home a little disappointed. Don't get me wrong, this was an amazing movie, just more of a thinking movie then a fighting, superhero movie. Overall I'd give it 4 out of 5 stars. Maybe even 4.5 after I watch it again and understand it better.
