Amazing!! The Joker is the demented, psycho he is in the comics and Heath Ledger plays it perfectly. If I didn't know before hand that Heath Ledger was The Joker, I wouldn't have known that was him in the movie. Batman is not in too many scenes but you don't really care because you are so caught up in the story so much that you just want to see what happens with Harvey Dent and The Joker. Don't get me wrong, Bale is awesome as Bruce and Batman, but he has a little less face time than the other characters in the movie. I did not mind. The fall of Harvey Dent was a tragic story and one that you did not want to see happen. It was told very well and even though you know what happens to him (if you're a comic fan) you don't want him to turn into the villain he is destined to be. Overall, excellent movie. It is on of the best, if not the best,,comic book movie ever imagined on screen. Those people that say the story was too dark, or set too much into reality obviously have not read a Batman comic or any comic in the past 5-10 years. This movie is true to the source material and that's all you can ask.