Ebert & Roeper review THE DARK KNIGHT

Richard Roeper and that bore clown Michael Phillips (is this guy a permanent fixture now?) have reviewed The Dark Knight on Ebert & Roeper this week and unsuprisingly it's a completely positive review. Roeper especially loves the damn thing calling it one of the best pictures of the year, even going so far as saying that it would be an upset if Heath Ledger WASN'T nominated for an Oscar next year. He goes on to say Christopher Nolan has created possibly the greatest superhero movie of all time and believes it also should be a Best Picture Oscar contender. He then compares it to Heat and The Departed. It really doesn't get much more positive than this review. If you wanna stay 100% pure for the film (which is pretty impossible at this point) then don't watch the video below, although there aren't really any spoilers here or anything you can't deduce from previous footage and information.

The movie still has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, though not all the web's reviews are on their yet (though you tell me if there is a negative review ANYWHERE!) and there has been some speculation over the weekend that the movie will become the highest opening 3 day weekend of all time.

Remember as I said a few weeks back, it's only going to take 2 more people for every 1 that went on the opening weekend three years ago for Batman Begins for that to happen, not a feat beyond the realms of possibility. There seems to be at least twice as many fans anticipating this movie more than last time and with all those screenings sold out, it's almost at the point where it would be surprising if it didn't beat the record or at the very least run it close.

You lucky Americans, you get it in a few days. I personally have to wait until a week on Wednesday but I can live with that fact because we get Wall*E this week in the U.K.!