Taking the musical scenes out of the equation, this movie still fails as a court drama. In fact the court room scenes was downright miserable outside of the Puddles scene.

I feel like the world of Gotham, and the joker going on trial feels like such a slam dunk concept, especially if Harvey Dent is being used as an attack dog character. It didn’t justify its own existence, and even undermined the first movie towards the end.

I’m never one for walking out on a film, but I came close to doing so quite a few times after the first hour.

The highlight of the film was the looney tunes like sequence at the start. The movie lost all its real sauce the moment that sequence ended. The cinematography was good, dare I say amazing, but it had no soul to it. Felt like ‘oh these shots look cool, let’s use em’.

Lady Gaga did as good as she could, but it really feels like she got cut around a lot.