If you haven’t rushed to see “The Dark Knight” yet, you’d better. So put on your bat cape and fly towards the nearest cinema.

Two hours and 32 minutes long, the sequel of “Batman Begins” (2005) is shockingly overbearing. It’s a smash hit that envisages an almost complete civic calamity.

Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece portrays a mythical world where being a superhero does not guarantee a happy end. Nobody lives happily ever after and the colorful images of bliss do not penetrate the dark smoke of the urban explosions.

The Joker, impersonated by the late Heath Ledger, is the most terrifying sort of villain. He is unscrupulous without any reason. His paradise is chaos and fright. His silhouette is the only one highlighted in the blackness of his empire. And Heath Ledger, in his final role, unveils the skillful perfection of an expert.

It’s not quite reasonable to affirm that Heath Ledger steals “The Dark Knight” from Christian Bale and the power of good he represents, but, playing the Joker, he is the movie’s stirring element and rebellious glow, a relentless energy running over the unbending aims of any Batman purpose.

Much more solemn in meaning and significance than “Batman Begins,” “The Dark Knight” would be incurably cumbersome lacking Ledger’s malicious melted clown-face character.

We never get to discover where the Joker came from. Every time the character relates the legend of his smiling scars, the story is rather different. Maybe the Joker is another one each time. He is his own evil god who creates and kills whenever he wishes to.

While the Joker acknowledges faultlessly that an extremely honorable enemy like Batman is a longed-for bequest, for Batman the match is much more complicated than that. Batman has to change in order to defeat the Joker.

He has to give up his reputation and perform things that are offensive for a hero. Will Batman be the first superhero movie where evil is triumphant? “The Dark Knight” is waiting on the big screens to answer all of your questions and quench your thirst for some real flabbergasting action.