It takes me 3 hours to watch this film.It is the sixth of the batman
series.The movie has a subtle insight into human nature.
In Gotham City,the Joker robs a mob-owned bank with his
accomplices,whom he tricks into killing each other.Batman and
Gordon contemplate including new district attorney Harvey Dent in
their plan to eradicate the mob,as he could be the public hero
Batman cannot be.However,Batman wonders if Dent can be trusted.
Bruce runs into Rachel and Dent,who are dating,and after talking
to Dent he realizes he is sincere and decides to host a fundraiser
for him.
Underworld gangsters meet to discuss both Batman and Dent.Lau,a
Chinese mafia accountant,informs them that he has hidden their
money and fled to Hong Kong in an attempt to preempt Gordon's plan
to seize the mobsters' funds.The Joker arrives unexpectedly,
offering to kill Batman in return for half of the mob's money,an
offer the mobsters refuse.In Hong Kong,Batman captures Lau and
delivers him to the Gotham City police,where Lau agrees to testify
against the mob.In retaliation,the mobsters hire the Joker to kill
Batman and Lau.The Joker issues an ultimatum to Gotham,stating
that if Batman does not reveal his identity to the public,people
will die each day.Dent announces at a press conference that he
himself is Batman and is arrested as part of a plan to draw the
Joker out of hiding.
Later that night,Dent and Rachel disappear.At the police station,
Batman interrogates the Joker,who reveals that their police escorts
were on Maroni's payroll,and have placed them in warehouses rigged
with explosives on opposite sides of the city — far enough apart so
that Batman cannot save them both.Batman leaves to save Rachel,
while Gordon and the police head after Dent.With the aid of a
smuggled bomb,the Joker escapes police custody with Lau.Batman
arrives to save Rachel but instead finds Dent.Batman successfully
saves Dent,but the ensuing explosion disfigures Dent's face.Gordon
arrives at Rachel's location too late,and she is killed.In the
hospital,Dent's grief drives him to madness.The Joker burns Lau to
death atop a pile of the mob's money.Then the Joker goes to the
hospital and convinces Dent to exact revenge on the corrupt cops and
mobsters responsible for Rachel's death,as well as Batman and
Gordon.
Dent goes on a personal vendetta confronting Maroni and the corrupt
cops one by one,deciding their fates with the flip of a coin.The
Joker announces to the public that anyone left in Gotham at
nightfall will be subject to his rule.Authorities begin evacuating
people by ferry.The Joker places explosives on two of the ferries—
one ferry with convicts,the other with civilians—telling the
passengers the only way to save themselves is to trigger the
explosives on the other ferry; otherwise,he will destroy both at
midnight.
Meanwhile,the Joker's plan to destroy the ferries fails after the
passengers on both decide not to destroy each other.Batman locates
and subdues the Joker.Batman leaves in search of Dent.At the
remains of the building where Rachel died,Batman finds Dent holding
Gordon and his family at gunpoint.Dent judges the innocence of
Batman,himself,and Gordon's son through three coin tosses.As a
result of the first two flips,he shoots Batman and spares himself.
Before Dent can determine the boy's fate,Batman,tackles him and
they both fall over the side of the building — Dent appears dead.
Batman and Gordon realize that the morale of the city would suffer
if Dent's murders became known.Batman persuades Gordon to preserve
Dent's image by holding "Batman" responsible for the murders.And a
manhunt for Batman begins.