Article: the joke is on us The Dark Knight Baby Mama

Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight (12A), his sequel to Batman Begins, appears before British audiences heavily freighted with rumour and expectation. It has already broken box-office records in the US, bolstered by the weight of myth rapidly accruing to Heath Ledger, the late actor whose last completed screen role was that of the Joker, the most flamboyantly fractured soul in the film.

For a short while - especially when seen, as I saw it, on an enormous IMAX screen - it appears to merit the hype. To share Batman's eye-view as he dips from the dizzying heights of a Gotham City skyscraper to the pavements below is to be briefly thrilled by the brute power of cinema. Then the flaws creep ...

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