The Dark Knight deserves the hype. I saw it this morning at 9:30 and already want to see it again. Batman Begins was good. The Dark Knight is great. The cast is phenomenal—Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Morgan Freeman play their rules perfectly. And then there's Heath Ledger, who owns the film—all the Oscar talk is well deserved. So it goes.
