I had heard a lot of early reviews hailing this as a great movie with an oscar worthy performance from Heath Ledger. I love the new rendition of the Batman series so I was excited to see it. My expectations were greatly exceeded. It is a very unique movie in that it is an action movie that has a deep and meaningful plot and storry with an awesome cast of extremely talented actors. And then we meet the Joker. And Heath Ledger's performance is so incredible. The thing about the Joker is that you immediately think of Jack Nicholson playing the role of a bad guy who's bad and he runs a group of criminals but hes never really scary. Heath Ledger as the Joker is scary. And if you didn't know it was Heath Ledger you wouldn't believe it based on the acting in the movie. To sum up, go see it. It's great. It's very dark. And it's technically PG-13 but its very violent.