The Dark Knight

THE new Batman film – The Dark Knight – kept me on the edge of the seat when I watched it last week.

I remember going to watch the original Batman film almost 20 years ago at the cinema and being mesmerised by that film too.

It never seemed as good when I watched it again when it was shown on TV a few years later.

I think Blockbusters have to be seen at the cinema and it is only here that you pick up all the sounds and images.

I was surprised to see that the film was a 12A though.

A 12A certificate means that children of 12 can watch it unaccompanied, and younger children can go to watch it if they are with their parents.

Apparently the British Board of Film classification has already received 70 complaints about the film.

In certain parts of the film parents have had to put their hands over their children’s eyes.

Scenes that parents have complained about include one where a man’s eye is jabbed with a pencil.

Another scene to cause concern is where The Joker graphically tells how he has knifed people.

In the original Batman film Jack Nicholson played the Joker for laughs in some scenes, Heath Ledger’s portrayal is equally brilliant, but much darker.Critics have also said there are scenes of “gratuitous violence” in the Dark Knight.