I thought Ackerman was fine, actually, I genuinely don't see why she got such crap
Because reviewers couldn't see past the gratuitously sleazy costume? Well, that, and Alan Moore didn't give her all that much to work with to begin with, and the movie cut what there was down even further by taking out the smoking and the swearing.
edited to add: Given that they stole Harvey Dent's canon backstory wholesale and gave it to Katie Holmes's character in Batman Begins, I was halfway convinced that we were going to get Maggie Gyllanhall as a female Two-Face in TDK. It would have been much cooler than her getting to be the woman in two men's refrigerators.
Re: Huh?
Because reviewers couldn't see past the gratuitously sleazy costume? Well, that, and Alan Moore didn't give her all that much to work with to begin with, and the movie cut what there was down even further by taking out the smoking and the swearing.
edited to add: Given that they stole Harvey Dent's canon backstory wholesale and gave it to Katie Holmes's character in Batman Begins, I was halfway convinced that we were going to get Maggie Gyllanhall as a female Two-Face in TDK. It would have been much cooler than her getting to be the woman in two men's refrigerators.