Summary: The Dark Knight movie reviews are bursting out like a huge bat colony from a cave at nightfall.
Heath Ledger's performance is getting raves. Below are some selected quotes, with links to reviews I found interesting:

OfficialHeat.com

"I have NEVER seen a movie with this much hype not only live up to the hype, but
surpass any expectation you have due to it. ... It’s FLAWLESS. All the hype in
the world can’t properly prepare you for what they don’t tell or show you."

Passionforcinema.com

"I almost didn’t know how to absorb and analyze the movie at the same time. But
this is a high water mark in big budget cinema that almost seems untouchable."

AtomicPopcorn.com

"So first things first. Does Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” deserve
all the praise it’s been getting? The answer to that is a resounding
“YES!” With “The Dark Knight”, Nolan has not only crafted a film that
easily surpasses his original (and that’s saying something), but he’s also
created a truly memorable filmgoing experience that is without a doubt the best
movie of the year."

RollingStone.com

"I can only speak superlatives of Ledger, who is mad-crazy-blazing brilliant as the Joker."

Comcast.net

"So go, see "The Dark Knight" and revel in the fact that a "popcorn movie" just might be the best film of the year."

One word of caution. Several reviews said the movie is very DARK, and the Joker is no comic, he's a sadistic, evil killer. You may want to think twice before taking young kids.

Summary: The fight scenes were awesome. Flippin’ sweet, but not without flaws.

What I liked: Amazing art work and outstanding fight scenes!!! The artwork was fantastic! In some scenes it looked like an oil painting, and anymore artistic, I would of thought the teaser to be a cutscene to the video game!

Didn't like: Well, there a number of flaws in the movie… to begin, too many slow-mo yoda scenes. By yoda, I mean jumping though the air to chop someone's head off in slow-mo and for the head to spin fifty feet in the air and slowly twist around to show the blood spewing at you in three dimensions. I liked the slo-mo a lot, but they just overdid it. There was hardly any story at all really. There would be some talking and then maybe either a huge, graphic slo-mo fight or a graphic slo-mo sex scene. And most of it didn’t make sense.

Some times during the fight the Spartans would stop to make jokes. The crowd was laughing but if this movie was being realistic the soldiers would have died laughing. And the movie talked about learning how to use your head to achieve victory and outsmart the enemy, yet during the fights they just used brute strength and sword skills.

SPOILER >>>>>>> Like in the end they made this awesome formation of a dome with their shields, and their spears sticking out, but they never used it. Instead they broke formation to kill an unimportant messenger of the enemy, and they were open to attack. In about the 20th slo-mo scene, the Spartan king did make the enemy god-king bleed, but the movie didn’t make enough of this. None of the enemy seemed to notice, or flee as you might expect because gods aren’t supposed to bleed.

SPOILER >>>>>>>>> And through the whole movie, the Spartans fought hard and it looked like they would never die, but in the end, it was like the king turned around and all of his guys were dead in seconds.

Additional: Despite the flaws below, I would watch it again in a heartbeat. It is a feast for the eyes.
>>Dad: “A visual treat and something different. Imagine watching about 2 hours of the time-warped fight scenes in the game Prince of Persia (Warrior Within), with the pounding soundtrack to boot. Not graphic in the sense of a horror flick, more in an artistic direction."

Recommend for: Adults only. Definitely adults and mostly guys. Trust me.