13 Biggest Mistakes The Batman Movies Ever Made

I'm almost hesitant to cite this as a mistake, because The Dark Knight, as most agree, is one of the very best comic book movies ever made. As far as Two-Face goes, Nolan made an excellent choice in casting Aaron Eckhart, who does tremendous work as Harvey Dent.

However, it goes back to the old problem of too many villains. Just as Tommy Lee Jone's Two-Face never had a chance to shine alongside Jim Carrey's Riddler, so it was that any secondary bad guy in The Dark Knight was doomed to be forgettable in the wake of the sadly missed Heath Ledger's bold, character-redefining take on The Joker.*

Two-Face is such a rich character, he really deserves to be a solo antagonist in a Batman movie, yet once again he wound up being reduced to a comparative footnote in The Dark Knight. While Eckhart made a great impact as Dent, he never really got enough time to properly make an impression as Two-Face, and the distracting use of CGI for his scarring didn't help.

Here's hoping that, somewhere down the line, we get a new take on Two-Face that finally lets the character take centre stage.

*On a side note, Jared Leto's casting as The Joker in Suicide Squad, and the film's revised take on that character, was another major mistake - but despite Ben Affleck's brief cameo, that one doesn't really count as a Batman movie.