I really liked this movie. I'm not a huge batman fan, but this was really good. Heath Ledger did an excellent job of portraying a complete psycho with his Joker character. This movie held my attention the entire time. I also like Batman begins which was directed by Christopher Nolan as well. But this one was even better than Begins, in my opinion. Very dark movie, and not a kids movie. I've been told Nolan portrayed his characters like the original Batman comics, where the villans were more like real people who had gone insane, rather than super villans with super natural abilities. Not a movie for kids younger than 12 or so, because of the situations in the movie.