The promotion of this movie killed it. It didn't live up to the hype. It was good, but it wasn't great. Batman begins was great. As a matter of fact this one only surpasses Batman & Robin on the scale of Batman movies. Heath Ledger pulls of his role as a maniacally, demented joker but that's about it. There was not enough Batman for this to be a batman movie. Maggie Gyllenhal is a better actress than Katie Holmes, but not cute enough to play oposite the playboy Bruce Wayne portrayed by pretty bou Christian Bale. I expected to walk out of the theatre dying for the next chapter, but I could care less at this point. And seriously, can we do away with the gruff and over computerized batman voice!