15 Most Over-Rated Movies Of The 21st Century

It’s been lauded with praise by critics and comic book fans alike since its release in 2008 and currently ranks as the 26th highest grossing film of all time, and there’s no denying that Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight helped hoist the superhero genre to the heady heights of cerebral thinking with themes including the nature of good and evil and shady mass surveillance in a post-9/11 world amongst the many tricky subject matters the movie tackles.

But therein lies one of the problems with The Dark Knight – it was a tad too cluttered not only in the themes it tackled but also in its cast of various heroes and villains – and while it’s a firm breath of fresh air in a genre that all too often relies on thin plotlines and fast-paced action scenes, it can come off as somewhat overly introspective for a comic book movie.

Both the film’s marketing campaign and the immortal line uttered by Heath Ledger as The Joker, whose untimely death many believe to have contributed to The Dark Knight’s extreme exaltation, sum up the movie perfectly – why so serious?