You know what! I really liked the new Batman movie, I truly did. I liked it so much that I actually hunted down the first part, "Batman Begins", and watched it over the weekend. There are interesting ethical questions that are raised repeatedly in both movies - "do criminals deserve sympathy?", "why doesn't Batman pull the trigger on deranged felons?", "are compassion and regard for the justice system his biggest weaknesses, as Ducat repeatedly says in the first film?". I honestly feel that in the second movie, Batman takes this compassion and regard for justice thingy too far. Why the heck didn't he knock off the Joker the first time itself? Does it make sense to put this raving lunatic in jail and then see him escape and blow up half of Gotham city with a smile? Even in the end, he leaves the Joker alive for the police to arrest him, leaving scope for a lot of mayhem and another Joker movie, minus the immensely talented Heath Ledger.
Anyways, except for this moral moot point, I had no other grouse with the film. Brilliantly composed and acted. The ending was pure delight - Batman fleeing into the wilderness with the title flashing for the first time, heralding the presence of the tortured and disturbed, yet noble and brave - "dark knight".
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