Just watched again and.......

there's a big drop off to TDKR.

I just watched this movie again this weekend too. It is so fantastic.

Absolutely underrated. I have felt for a while that this was the best of the Trilogy and am rewatching the three films to determine that.

It really changed super hero movies. It created a realistic and intense origin story for an iconic character. We don't see Batman at all for over an hour. But it all works.

The scene with Batman on the rooftop after taking out Falcone and his gang gives me chills.
Starts @ 41 seconds in this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoQ9fhV8KvE

The Batmobile scene is a fantastic and gripping chase scene.

This is one of my all-time favorite movies.
And it's the best movie in the greatest Trilogy of all-time.

I just watched this movie again this weekend too. It is so fantastic.

Absolutely underrated. I have felt for a while that this was the best of the Trilogy and am rewatching the three films to determine that.

It really changed super hero movies. It created a realistic and intense origin story for an iconic character. We don't see Batman at all for over an hour. But it all works.

The scene with Batman on the rooftop after taking out Falcone and his gang gives me chills.
Starts @ 41 seconds in this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoQ9fhV8KvE

The Batmobile scene is a fantastic and gripping chase scene.

This is one of my all-time favorite movies.
And it's the best movie in the greatest Trilogy of all-time.

You are right. LEDGER crushed it, but everything else in TDK was subpar. It was an overlong movie with too many characters, monotone acting from everyone except Ledger, a dull Bruce-Rachel dynamic. I know that Katie Holmes is not the world's best actor, but Bale and Holmes had tremendous chemistry in this film while Maggie G was extremely bland as Rachel in TDK. Also, Bale gave a great performance in this movie, and not nearly as good in the sequels. Gotham was really New York and Chicago in the sequels.