Batman - the plot thickens

I still haven't recovered from quite how bad the last Batman film was. 

So I went back and watched the first 2 films again and came to a rather surprising conclusion. 

With the benefit of hindsight it's pretty obvious while "Batman Begins" is pretty much perfect the rot actually set in with the next film in the series.

Plot-wise  "The Dark Knight" is a mess. At the time of it's release that largely went unnoticed due to it featuring the best of Batman's foes, The Joker.  This was hyped because Heath Ledger did a pretty good job in the role which, unfortunately turned out to be his last which ofc ended up in hype overdrive. 

The two things that are worst plot-wise are:
- Joker spends much of the film acting as a glorified, if rather psychotic,  mob hitman. He only starts to get really interesting at the end once he is done with the mob and he makes it clear he believes himself to be Batman's opposite and that Batman created him this way. Strangely watching the film again I liked the final "boat" scene much more than first time through, this was the "real" Joker at work. 
- Harvey Dent/Two-Face just fails. The transformation is unbelievable and just feels like its been tacked on to give the film a reason for Batman going on the run to bridge into the last film. This is total fail. Reasoning is "Harvey killed some policeman, but he is meant to be a good guy so the people can't know. So Batman must take the fall" Er??? 
>>> With all the chaos going on that night it would have been easy to finger the Joker as responsible
>>> The film couldn't bring itself to show Two-Face killing a woman. So at least one policewoman knows the truth. 

(Other terrible thing was the casting of Rachel. Thank God she was killed midway through.)