Well of course it’s over rated. There hasn’t been a movie made that deserved the hype that Dark Knight received. Still a great movie and easily the best comic book movie though. I actually like it a little more every time I watch it. The first two times I saw it I was just waiting for The Joker to come back but once that faded I really began to appreciate the story as a whole more.
Same goes for Ledger’s performance. Yeah, people over hyped it but that doesn’t make it anything less than brilliant. Just finally having a near accurate representation of The Joker on film would have been good enough for me but the way he fully threw himself into the role was amazing. I think I can safely say we’ll never see a better version of that character in a live action anything again.
