The Batman exposes how grossly overrated this movie has been for years

#3 spot on IMDB's top 250 movies of all time? Really?

Honestly the death of Heath Ledger and his performance in the film are the sole reason why this film is so overrated and overhyped by many and why it has bafflingly secured it's spot as the best comic book movie of all time and one of the best movies of all time.

But when you really look at it closely aside from Heath's Joker everything else in the movie is rather mediocre:

underwhelming action scenes
poor fight choreography with too many camera cuts to make up for it
under developed characters (Gordon, Rachel, Harvey, Lucious, Alfred)
contrived plot
dull cinematography
an ordinary looking Ghotam (baffling considering how well it was done in Begins)
poorly cast Rachel (Maggie was awful in the role and just failed to make anyone care for her death)
clunky dialogue
poor pacing
etc

Really overall The Dark Knight is a mediocre film whose only saving grace is Heath's performance as the Joker and this performance itself was boosted and praised more than it should have been due to his death.

The new Batman movie to begin with has a better and more faithful to the comics portrayal of Batman and Pattinson is a much better Batman than Bale, a more comic book like Ghotam, better dialogue, plot, pacing and pulls off the whole "grounded in realism" that Nolan was after in his movie without sacrificing the comic book quality of the film. It actually feels like a Batman movie as opposed to a movie that happens to have Batman in it like The Dark Knight does.

In short, The Dark Knight has always been massively overrated, but it is not until now that we finally have a movie in The Batman that helps show this fact.