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Okay, so I watched The Dark Knight at an IMAX cinema with a few friends yesterday morning. It was my first viewing, so I found the immersive experience rather overwhelming. I thought it was on par with the earlier Batman Begins, but most of my fellow viewers thought it totally blew them away. I must say that the characters were very well played and the progression of events was both rapid and fluid. However, the movie was less than fulfilling in some ways, and I had been trying to put my finger on it all day.

Something Batman Begins had that The Dark Knight is missing is sufficient character development. I understand that the sheer number of action scenes in the movie makes it difficult to completely flesh out each major character, but I feel that the movie might not have needed so much action. As such, The Dark Knight presents a moment frozen in time. To have a thorough understanding of the story, one must have additional information and processing time. There were scenes in the movie that exposed the workings of human nature quite well, and I would have liked to see more.

The Dark Knight had huge ambitions; for a two-and-a-half-hour-long movie, I think it made the best of its tight time budget. Nonetheless, I felt the movie was worth watching, and the IMAX presentation does it justice; so instead of exposing its details, I’d recommend interested readers to watch the movie personally.