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Excellent character displays by chistian bale and the late heath ledger. This is a must for the new and upcoming trilogy. Original Review: The Dark Knight( is a good movie). It has all the ingredients to be a great movie, but it isn't one. I may grudgingly put it on my best-ten-of-the year list (a paltry group at this point), but it could have been so much more. It came so close. One knows the action in The Dark Knight will be cranked up, especially since director/writer Christopher Nolan's action sequences came under criticism in Batman Begins (2005). One also knows that, because The Dark Knight has a striking cast, the acting will be memorable. Both wily veterans Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine in the same movie as Batman's helpers is enough to give the movie a lot of substantial class. Christian Bale, who trained in martial arts, is back as Bruce Wayne/Batman. His choice to speak in a Clint Eastwood low growl as Batman is odd but OK. He makes a polished Bruce Wayne and a buffed Batman. The romantic interest Assistant District Attorney Rachel Dawes takes a step up in The Dark Knight. In Batman Begins, Dawes was played by cute Katie Holmes. In The Dark Knight she has more emotional substance as played by Maggie Gyllenhaal. Gyllenhaal's emotionality is crucial in The Dark Knight. Aaron Eckhart is the vulnerable white knight District Attorney Harvey Dent. One of the best performances in The Dark Knight is by Gary Oldman as Police Lt. Jim Gordon. Oldman, who often gobbles scenery, gives a low-key performance that is very effective amidst the bombast. Adding further quality performances are Eric Roberts, Gillian Murphy and Anthony Michael Hall. Since the rest of the cast is eminently able, it comes down to Heath Ledger as The Joker. If he gives an acceptable performance, The Dark Knight should prevail. In 1989 in Tim Burton's Batman, Jack Nicholson seemed to play the ultimate card as The Joker. He was a masterly cartoon figure. Nicholson's performance seemed to retire the character forever. What a challenge for Heath Ledger -- to get in the ring with iconic Jack. But Ledger knew something we didn't. He had found the heart of The Joker, which made him a human character, not just a cartoon. It was a damaged, black heart, but it was a human heart. Ledger died in January in New York City, his death officially judged to be the result of an accidental prescription overdose. The recent talk about a possible Oscar nomination for Ledger as Best Supporting Actor may have seemed just based on sympathy, but it's not. Ledger is the leading candidate, because of the phenomenal performance he delivers. Ledger's performance of The Joker as a snarky anarchist, a smoldering madman, is one of a kind. It will become a classic. It's a primer for great acting, especially Ledger's physical movements. He sidles and slides, ambles and erupts, muttering his psychotic dogma. Fundamentally The Joker is a potent anarchist. The Dark Knight features a post 9/11 Batman. The Caped Crusader -- the Compassionate Conservative -- is pulled toward the dark side by the terrorist Joker. Goodness is losing its moral bearings. Power to do good becomes power to do anything. Since The Dark Knight is a smorgasbord of delicious acting, why is The Dark Knight too often less satisfying than it should be? With powerful psychological underpinnings and a dazzling cast, why does The Dark Knight fizzle?Read full review
i dont know if any else has had problem with this, but i have two slit loading dvd players, one is my ps3 the other is a sony blu ray, and neither can grab this disc....it works excellent but for some reason it has a problem taking this disc. Anyways just wanted to give you heads up, maybe whatever region the disc is manufactured in is cutting them a bit thin. All other discs work, but i gotta shove this one in manually, and ejecting it has been kinda scary, it has made both players do a "click click click click" before getting it out half way. anyways works great in traditional loads.
Along comes a movie now and then that is hyped up and over marketed, while the finished product itself is not quite as good as all of that. This movie, while a good movie and able to keep your interest despite the 2 1/2 hour runtime, is a little bit of hype. But, then again what batman movie ever wasn't. The part of the Joker is played very well by Heath Leadger and Christian Bale adds a dark side to Bruce Wayne as his alter ego Batman. This movie has a lot of action scenes and stunts that will have you as on the edge of your seat as much as the intense performances of both Leadger and Bale. Be warned though while the movie does not quite follow the DC Comics or the other Batman movies of the late 80's and 90's this is not one you would want to see with the young ones as them PG13 rating would indicate. I would definitely say this movie, while not the "Greatest superhero movie ever", is definitely better than the first and is much better than I expected.Read full review
I personaly i like the movie, but the only part that i didnt like was that it was too violent.im preaty God didnt like that part niether. if you read psalms11:5 the psalmist sais,"Jehovah himself examines the rigteouse one as well as the wicked one, And anyone loving violence His soul certanly hates". sos if we dont want Jehovah God to hate us we shouldnt see, play or do anything violent.But thats not the only tex that shows us that God hate violence!In proverbs6:16-19 he sais,"There are six things that Jehovah does hate; yes, seven are things detestable to his soul: lofty eyes, a false tongue, and hands that are shedding innocent blood, a heart fabricating hurtful schems, feet that are in a hurry to run to badness, a false witness that launches forth lies, and anyone sending forth contentions among brothers." so as we can see anyone that loves violence and or shedds inocent blood.how much violence and killing is inthat movie that God hates? im not say this for you or anyone else dosnt watch it, this is just the way i think God should be respected on the way he sees things.Is the way i think and the way God thinks.Read full review
This movie should have been titled The Dark side of Joker. I expected it to be more centered on Bruce Wayne/Batman not a character study of Joker. Since Heath Ledger's portrayal of Joker showed he was one of the greatest contemporary actors it is no wonder the director zoomed in on Joker. Now put Heath in the same frame with Gary Oldman (my favorite actor, see him play Mason Verger in Hanibal) and cinematic history is made. And bravo to the person who picked Aaron Eckhart to be Harvey Dent/Two Face. Amazing special effects of Two Face's bad half meeting Eckhart's majestic acting makes the movie sizzle, all I can say is encore! With the screen presence of Gary Oldman, Heath Ledger and Aaron Eckhart, Christain Bale melts into the shadows. Batman has his fleeting moments of glory, while Bruce Wayne comes across as oily. Katie Holmes should have reprized her role Rachel Dawes, for only she could hold her own among these giants of the screen. A must see movie so you will know what people mean when they ask "Why so serious?"Read full review
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