I went to the public midnight screening at the theater I work at. We have 12 theaters in the entire cinema, and 3 of them were showing this movie at midnight. All 3 shows were completely sold out, and people were lining up at the theater doors of 10, 11 and 12 (the theaters playing the movie) which are near the end of the hall (the back of the cinema), since 8:00.

There were too many people for our normal queues to be set up, so we had to plant metal poles and set out "Do not cross" tape. There were 3 rows of these from the wall, and even then when filled, the line up went all the way out (yes, out) the front doors.

It was cool seeing some of the people getting into it. There were a couple people dressed up as batman, a robin, a couple jokers, and even some confused fellow dressed up as Symbiote Spiderman. One of our managers pulled aside one of the guys in the batman combo and took a picture of him holding our Batman Combo to send to our head office as P/R.

I got there with a girl I work with around 10:30. There were some delays on the showings. Theater 12, scheduled for midnight got in at 12:15, and we (theater 11, scheduled for 12:15) got in at 12:30. But it was well worth the wait.

The movie starts off on a good note. The whole theme of the movie is established in the first 5 minutes with the Joker and his minions killing each other while robbing a bank. Betrayal, looking out for yourself, and two-faced-ness. (For the sake of this, its a word.)

Its a theme that holds through the entire movie without deviation. Its as solid as the Joker's insanity. Which is highly entertaining I might add. I must admit that I giggled like a giddy school girl when he told the story of the scars on the side of his mouth, asked "Why so serious?" and slashed the sides open of the mouth of one who spoke when he shouldn't off. My gripe there is that it unfortunately doesn't actually show him slicing the guy.

My only gripe with the movie is you never know when its going to end. It has about 50 endings throughout the entire movie that are set up. You expect it to end and then it shows that its still only getting started. While a good thing in its own right, kinda annoying.

One example of this was one of my favourite joker scenes, when Harvey Dent falls to the persona of Two-Face. The Joker stands over Harvey in a hospital, wearing a nurses uniform. After his speech to Harvey on how much people suck, the Joker blows up the hospital while walking away with a happy skip to his step. My favourite piece in this part was when the explosion stopped midway through, he fumbles with the detonator until the hospital is engulfed and collapses entirely and the Joker runs off laughing like a maniac, arms waving.

The Joker was captured brilliantly in this movie, showing off his great insanity perfectly. The action was brilliant, the one liners classic, and the characters captured perfectly. Not to mention it was just, plain, epic.

Totally loved it. Totally worth getting out at 3:30am