100% love the fact that the music cuts out and you just sink in the sound and intensity of this magnificent scene. Kudos to the sound engineers who worked on this movie.

Tumbler: *body slams a dump truck straight into the ceiling* Joker: "Hmm..."

“Harvey, Harvey, Harvey Dent. Oh, excuse me, I wanna drive.” 😂

This is why Nolan is a visionary director. All the little details going into each shot and the sequence of action is bar none. Barely any CGI, if any to be honest. Joker popping out the side of the trailer is so iconic to me.

2:30 that sound of the Batmobile never gets old

No movie made me feel the way this movie felt watching it for the first time. I wish I could forget this movie and watch it again for the first time. What a masterpiece

that moment at 2:49 is when the joker realizes Dent is not Batman.

"These things are built for that, right?" "He's gonna need something a LOT bigger to get through this." [cut to Joker shouldering a rocket launcher] Always makes me lol

Joker is literally testing all his firearms to see which one can penetrate through the truck's body.

0:16 feel bad for that truck driver, the Joker probably destroyed his eardrums with that shot lol

2:47 when Joker went " hmm.." after Batman ruined his plans had me rollingggggg LOL

"He's gonna need something a lot bigger to get through this" Joker is handed an RPG 😂

I love jokers irony. It's a fire engine on fire🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

3:50: Joker: “Harvey Harvey Harvey Dent, oh…excuse me, I wanna drive.” *Joker pushes dead thug on the driver’s seat out of the truck.* That moment kills me for some reason. 😂

I remember when I saw this in theaters the first time and everyone laughed that Joker added an S on the truck to spell Slaughter. That's such a Joker thing to do.

1:39 after years of watching this film i just noticed that the truck says “laughter is the best medicine” with a S in spray paint by the joker. Brilliant detail

I remember seeing this film in theaters with my dad when it came out and hearing the music cut out the whole crowd got silent. You felt like anything could happen and its was tense.

I love how the joker is in a truck that says laughter is the best medicine on the side lol

The fire truck is ON FIRE. I guess that's the joker's sick sense of humour. Great detail.

Batman: I have one rule! Batman at 2:42 definitely killed that driver by crushing the cab against the tunnel ceiling.

The aggressiveness of the Tumbler is just mind blowing ❤

2:00 "These things are built for that, right?" "He's gonna need something a lot bigger." This exchange always makes me chuckle. For two seconds, Harvey isn't a prisoner talking to his jailer. He's still the DA casually talking to a SWAT officer while they're getting shot at.

Tim Burton, Christopher Nolan and Matt Reeves... Different thoughts, dreams, fantasies but great works...

“Harvey Harvey Harvey Dent. Excuse me, I want to drive.” 😂😂 Epic line😂😂

2:19 "I didn't sign up for this!!" Yes you did. Exactly this in fact

2:40 Something utterly satisfying about how the tumbler just rams the living daylights out of that truck!

RIP Heath 🙏🕊️ An impeccable performance

0:41 The convoy could have gone around the firetruck by just crossing over to the other side of the road and crossing back over at the next intersection.

2:40 Gordon knew what he was doing he waited till a near miss with the bat mobile so he can stop the truck behind the police van, good good teamwork right there

I like that Nolan's Batman Tumbler has this "Focus" mode. It never specify what else it does, it just simply move him closer to the screen.

1:24 when the swat guy says LOCK AND LOAD and then the truck gets bumped immediately into the river always makes me laugh

2:02 it's kind of low-key funny how he says they need something bigger to get through the truck, then it cuts to joker being handed an RPG and missile

03:49 Joker singing is hilarious😂😂😂

IMO, this is still one the greatest car chase scenes in film history. Idk man, the approach was just different compared to other movies. Iconic to say the least. Felt like a comic book come to life with actual life and death situations. Heath Ledger was something else..🃏 To be honest, it would be very refreshing to see something similar to this scene in The Batman 2 storyline if Keoghan were to be the main antagonist. I can only hope.

The sound engineers for this movie is the best I've ever heard. I get goosebumps with that subtle alarm sound throughout the movie.

2:30 this sound gives me chills

I just realized the fire truck on fire is an intentional sick joke by the Joker, not just an arbitrary roadblock.

0:49 : That is nice joke from joker. Fire truck on fire 🤯

I always forget that this scene represents a lovely instance of Gordon actively working whit Batman against the bad guys in the middle of the real action.

The batman was a great movie... But the dark knight trilogy is legend in my opinion

"batman doesnt kill" 2:38 well he killed the SHIT outa that guy XD

I still love this scene today after watching it so many years as a kid. This film’s definitely a masterpiece.

I can’t believe I lost it when the swat guy says “I didn’t sign up for this!” 2:18

2:40 batman broke his rule

The Batman has got big shoes to fill to beat scenes like this. Christ just the shot of the Joker popping out the window with the shotty and shooting that cop was brilliant. No music but thqt slight hum in the background. Fast cut right after. So smooth, yet dark and jarring It's all in the details. And part II of this scene is just a masterpiece

Can we just talk about th fact that Batman most definitely kills the truck driver at 2:41?

The driver of the garbage truck is 100% dead 💀. Looks like he can break his one rule to a non-named character.

Batman drives head first into a speeding garbage truck, Joker's reaction..."hmm" just brilliant.

This car chase scene is great, I can watch it every single remaining day of my life Timeless classic..

The action, the practical effects, the soundtrack. This film is a action film production masterpiece.

I first saw this movie in the IMAX theater with my dad and best friend back in 2008 and to this day I literally cannot watch this without hearing non-stop roaring applause! From the intro of the Batpod, to the truck flipping, to Gordon arresting Joker - the theater went NUCKIN' FUTS during this entire scene! Still one of my top 3 craziest movie theater experiences ever!

So apparently 75% of the action sequences with the trucks including the Tumbler were used with RC miniatures and destructible environments. The actors’ dialogue shots were shot in post and mixed in. They weren’t able to use the NY tunnel so they had to improvise a LOT of the shots in sound stages and miniatures.

This chase scene was so epic I love this movie so much

This movie is a love letter to Chicago.

You know rewatching this… the garbage truck driver that Batman made ramp into the ceiling was 100% crushed to death

2:40 I don’t care what anybody says, Batman definitely killed that truck driver there, there’s 0% chance he survived that since his body would be mangled in the wreck

Goes through academy, graduates, works on the streets for a few years.. makes detective. Soon, he is transporting highly dangerous personnel.... "I didn't sign up for this"... Was his last words

Batman: I don’t kill Also Batman: 2:40

In the beginning before they open the door to the truck and begin shooting, they spray painted an S in from of "laughter is the best medicine" making in slaughter is the best medicine. The attention to small details in this movie is incredible

One of the most fucking riveting action scenes ever directed. And it relies entirely on visual cues to tell you what's going on, no music or exposition.

“This thing is built for that right?” “He’s gonna need something a lot bigger to get through this.”

“We know you got rules, you don’t kill nobody.” 2:39 - Heh oh yeah I’m sure the guy driving was just fine after the cab was completely caved in.

3:50 “Harvey! Harvey! Harvey Dent! **Huhbleh** Excuse me, I want to drive.” 😂

Yo just imagine if the Tumbler was a transformer yo. That would be sick

I like how the rpg is the only thing we see the joker reload in the entire movie

Seeing this in the theater for the first time was something special

yeah batman doesn’t kill but i’m pretty sure the driver at 2:40 died instantly frum the tumbler crush

Ain’t no way batman didn’t kill the driver of that garbage truck

A fire truck on fire in the middle of a intersection on a shut down road is some devious shit. Joker even hoped out the 18 wheeler, wit a Glock, switch, an extendo on it 🔥

2:48 Joker's "hmmm" is when he figured out that Batman is in fact Bruce Wayne 100%

this is the only car chase cinema needs. Every other one wants to be this

*people say that The Batman batmobile chase is amazing and aside from 1 or 2 cool shot* *I thought it was too dark and the rain and the carlights obscured way to much* *This carchase however is literal perfection*

2:40 Batman's only kill

"SLaughter is the best medicine"

“Batman doesn’t kill.” Batman: 2:39

The irony of the fire truck being on fire, subtle joker touch

What a pure realistic seane. Master peace

I could never get over how easy it would have been to just drive around the fuckin burning fire truck.

The jokers little “hmmm” is definitely confusion as to why the Batman, who doesn’t kill, just turned that truck driver into a fucking human pancake.

One of the best jokers played.

You know a movie's intense when the music shuts off

2:40 Real talk: the dude driving that garbage truck is 100% dead by Batman's hand. Two vehicles with that much mass, momentum, and overall kinetic energy colliding head-on would prove totally fatal to anybody not driving something built to withstand that level of force (the Tumbler is basically built for war; a garbage truck, not so much). Not to mention that the cabin of the truck was folded like paper upon the near-immediate impact with the ceiling, and the driver would most definitely be folded along with it, if the sudden force of the roof caving in didn't crush his head. If that dude's NOT dead, he's debilitatingly crippled and probably a vegetable, and that feels like a worse fate to me.

Swat Team trained to be tactical shooters: Let's just watch the Joker fire an RPG upon us, let's not shoot back.

Crazy how batman ate that rocket from that bazooka 💯🤣

@2:19 Man in Uniform : I didn't sign up for this. Dude you are doing prison transfer in Gotham. XD

SWAT guy - "I didn't sign up for this!..." Me - "Yea you did buddy"

¡He visto esta película un montó de veces y para mi cada día me gusta mas es una obra sobresaliente gracias por su realización!👍😄

And that my friend is why The Dark Knight will always be the GOAT of superhero genre

The best Batman movie ever

There’s no way Batman didn’t kill that goon in the dump truck with how hard he crushed it with the Batmobile LMAO

2:40 jesus the brute force on the batmobile is insane

I love when joker reaction when batman destroys the truck in the ceiling

The windows bullet when the joker is driving is a smile face! :3

This post combustion jump over a car to catch the fucking rocket mid air, pure genius.

Love how joker is just shooting for fun without doing anything

I've never realized it but batman straight up murdered that guy in the garbage truck

Most peaceful night in Gotham

Joker: guns are too quick Also joker: uses guns

I actually lol'd when he pulls out a freaking bazooka lmao

3:52 Oh, excuse me. I want to drive.😂😂