Saturday, July 26, 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)


The Dark Knight was a real surprise. Most people had high expectations, and most likely it passed all of them, right from the first scene. Honestly everyone went to see it to see the Joker, and he was in the very first scene. Now the fact that Heath Ledger died has nothing to do with the popularity of the movie, it deserves every bit of praise it gets.

The acting was spot on, with no real weak points. The mob bosses were a little lacking (the fact that none of them really cared that the dude took all there money already) but that's minor. Dark Knight was probably Heath's best acting, and I'm not even really a fan of him. You didn't see any of the actors ever, you only saw who they were portraying. For the first time in a Batman movie, Joker was genuinely portrayed as insane and he is one of the few villains that are actually insane. Bale was great like always, so was Morgan and everyone else.

The plot was epic. It was dark, and incredibly well thought out. There was just so much going on at all times that you didn't have a chance to get bored and probably missed something. There were so many intricate subplots going on yet they all meshed together great. I was a little disappointed with the Harvey plot after he became Twoface as I feel he got fairly weak, but still good. The Joker was the center of all attention in every scene he was in, like the Riddler was in the older batman. The mass phone-sonar part in the end was incredibly ridiculous and in my opinion damage the realism in the rest of the movie, as it is fully impossible to ever actually do.

Surprisingly the movie was also quite funny considering how dark it was. There were many clever jokes and comments from the Joker. Many audience members were chuckling here and there, especially at the magic pencil part. Almost every scene with the Joker had something like this in it which made them highly entertaining.

One of the other things I didn't really like was the ending. Depending how the next movie continues it might be have been good, but as it is it was lacking.


Overall it is easily the best Batman movie. I knew it was going to be good but I didn't know it would be this good, and I didn't even like Batman Begins. There were many references to the older Batman's if you knew what to look for (Jack Nicholson's ending and when Joker gets caught at the end here for example). A couple hours after I saw it I wanted to see it again, and that doesn't happen much. If you only see one movie this year then make sure it's The Dark Knight.

9/10

-Kartoon

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