The Dark Knight is an intense brilliant film and easily one of the best I have seen in years and easily the best of it's kind. Christian Bale returns as the serious minded cap crusader fighting a world class villain, an all consuming, super Joker played to Oscar caliber by the late Heath Ledger. This is one of those films you completely forget about time, work, and any other outside distractions with performances like these. The effects in The Dark Knight are simply perfection. They seamlessly complete a masterpiece of cinematic brilliance.
Ledgers joker is no joke, he is a chaos seeking human missile, and easily the best bad guy in film history. His performance is so stunning you are thrust into a completely new level of the comic realm. No mercy, no remorse, no morality, truly a performance you will want to watch again and again either at the theaters or on DVD (hopefully sooner than later).
At times the Dark Knight enters the cinematic super realm as a thinking mans comic book hero, trying to save the world and in the process feeling bad about the mind set it takes to combat pure evil.
The Dark Knight is written and directed to perfection by Christopher Nolan (Jonathan Nolan), and just look at the supporting cast, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Gary Oldman, all serving a technically dazzling film that exists on a much higher level.
Be very careful, the Dark Knight is rated PG-13 but it feels like an R and it runs 2 and a half hours.
Every frame is a gut wrencher, a morality tail about a villain with no morals and a good guy that appears to be over his head.
I would have seen this film if only to see the late Heath Ledgers possible last performance, especially after seeing his work in the trailer. But this film was so exhaustingly fun to watch, such a emotional trip for two and a half hours. I will probably pay full price to see this one again... and after seeing this film you will be running home to add to your older Batman logo items, new shiny Dark Knight memorabilia, I promise.
With just one year passed after taking out Ra's Al Ghul's plan to have Gotham eliminated and the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Jonathan Crane AKA the Scarecrow, after the city was nearly plundered with his toxins, Bruce Wayne and his vigilante alter-ego the Batman, continue the seemingly-endless effort to bring order to Gotham, with the help of Lt. James Gordon and newly appointed District Attorney Harvey Dent, but a new threat has now emerged into the streets. The Dark Knight faces a rising psychopathic criminal called The Joker, who's eerie grin, laughter, and inhuman morality makes him more dangerous than what he has yet to unleash. It becomes an agenda to the Batman to stop the mysterious Joker at all cost, knowing that the both of them are in the opposite line. One with no method at all and seeks to see the world plunge into the fire he has yet to lit. One who represents the symbol of hope and uses his own shadow to bring the peace and order he has yet to accomplish on doing.
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and some menace.
Runtime: 152 min
