When the Joker puts the moves on Rachel, it marks Ledger as the only actor to come on to both Maggie and her brother, Jake, on-screen. - Carrie Rickey, reviewing for the Philadephia Enquirer.

Some thoughts -

- It took a while for me to get into Joker. For the most part it was Heath (Dead) Ledger. However there were 2 scenes of amazing depth of character,the 2nd being the hanging upside down scene. Fantastic. My issue is that he wasn't the Joker I know from the comics. Nicholson really wasn't either, so it's dissapointing we haven't seen that yet. Ledger deserves recognition for the role but I, myself, would not say Oscar.

- I like Bale but I don't like his "Batman voice." Lame

- Eckhart was great. I thnk this is the only film I've liked him.

- Love the connection to Batman Begins villain Scarecrow

- Gary Oldman is so very much James Gordon as I know him in the comics. Amazing job.

- Maggie G. I was more sorry that the character from BB died than her performance.

The film is excellent and a great representation of what "Comic book" movies should be. Not the special effects or fight scenes, but in the effect that its about character and story. I can only hope future films learn that there is a heart to "Comic book" films and not the crap like Daredevil or X-Men.

One of the top 5 best comic book films. Very close to overpowering the '89 Burton Batman film.

I do not consider myself any sort of comic book fan at all, so to me a comic book movie doesn't have be representative of the particular comic in question. I don't know if that enhances or decreases the viewing experience for me. However, I will say this was pretty much everything I like in a movie, and the character development was amazing, as was the action. The only disappointment was that Rachel just wasn't very good looking.

I had worried that Ledger's performance was being overrated because of his death, but it wasn't. It was incredible.

Very, very satisfying film.

The magic trick may be about the best moment of extreme brutality without being graphic that has ever been put to film. And it just perfectly cemented how sociopathic the Joker is.

Someone pointed out to me that it was used in the first film for very short sentences and primarily to criminals he was trying to intimidate. This time, long speeches to friends Gordon and Dent, and it was so silly it kept pulling me out of the film.

The thing that bugged me most was how rambling and chaotic the plot was. Perhaps chaotic was a purposeful choice, reflecting the Joker's intention. But I found it confusing and structurally unsatisfying. The bit where Batman and Rachel escape from the Joker at the fund raiser ... but the film just cuts to the next day ... leaving unresolved the psychopathic killer still in the ballroom with a roomful of defacto hostages and his intended victim, Harvey Dent, simply hidden in a closet. WTF?

Oddly, it reminded me of a similar cutaway in Tim Burton's Batman where the menace of the Joker was unresolved in a scene with Kim Basinger's character in her apartment when it was suddenly cut away from.

I hate omniscient bad guys. I don't just mean bad guys who plan to the greatest detail but bad guys who make plans that rely on knowing the outcome of essentially random events.

But I don't think it bothered me this time because to me the Joker almost wasn't really a true persona and individual but an essence and idea that just filled every possible outcome.