The Joker was positively EVIL and Heath Ledger played it to the hilt. The audience was into it so deeply that you could have heard a pin drop. Action was non stop, and the tension NEVER let up from the get-go to the end. By the end of the movie we all hated the Joker so badly that everyone wanted to do him in personally. But alas, there was no finality to that, so I am sure that there will be a sequel. However, it will be most difficult to replace Ladger, now that he is gone from this world. What I liked about this movie besides the action, was that the computer graphics looked absolutely real, and it did not have a comic book feel in spite of the DC Comics heritage, and the whole thing made me feel like all this was really possible.