Jonathan Ross, the chatshow host and film critic, has dismissed the new Batman film starring Heath Ledger as "boring and gloomy".
He also questioned whether Ledger deserved a posthumous Oscar for his well-reviewed role as the joker.
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But according to Ross, 47, neither he nor the British director Christopher Nolan's film lived up to the hype.
"It has some good bits, but long periods are boring - it's all a bit gloomy and self-serious," he declared.
Speaking on his BBC Radio 2 Saturday morning show, he said Ledger performed better as a homosexual cowboy in the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain, for which he narrowly missed out on an Oscar.
"It's nothing compared to his performance in Brokeback Mountain... I'm sure, sadly, if the guy hadn't died tragically young, they wouldn't be making all this fuss over it."