DARK KNIGHT movie review
“You Either Die a Hero, or Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become the Villain,” says Harvey Dent, DA, Gotham City.
If you want to see just ONE MOVIE this year….pick up a DVD of Dark Knight (Releasing December 9, 2008) and watch it on your BIG FLATSCREEN TV with stereo surround sound home theatre system.
Dark Knight is possibly the best superhero comic book movie since the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeves in 1978…at least according to me. And the one thing that really makes this movie stand out is not Chistian Bale, who has acted brilliantly regardless, but the maniacal depiction of the Joker by the late Heath Ledger. I’ve to say, Heath Ledger went out with a BIG bang. People say this was his best role ever and he was destined for bigger things had he not died so suddenly but I guess we shall never know!
Batman is at his most popular state at the beginning with a whole lot of copycat Batmen trying to “help” out, to the real one’s utter dismay. These are minor annoyances as compared to what is yet to come. The city is being shaken up by the local DA, Harvey Dent (bold quote above), who goes in and arrests hundreds of gangsters in the city. This starts a massive panic situation amongst the city’s notorious gangsters who then turn to the one man that can do something about this: The Joker. Ledger with the most amazing expressions, mannerisms and body language creates a scary and utterly evil monster in the Joker that has only one person laughing: himself!! “Why so serious?” he asks and proceeds to carve up his victims’ faces to make ‘em look like himself. Some of his utterances are going to be in the Hollywood history books like “Ehh…what’s up Doc”, “Let’s put a smile on that face”, and “You know, madness is like gravity…sometimes all you need is a little push.”
The Joker than proceeds to terrorize the city and create havoc making only one demand…that Batman surrenders and reveals his true identity. What follows is massive mayhem and confusion that blasts itself to an explosive end that you wouldn’t want to miss.
I’d like to know how they are going to start the next Batman movie and can ANY Joker live upto Heath Ledger’s depiction of him!!
GO SEE IT on December 9, 2008…..book it early….I’m sure your local video library is going to run out of copies!!
Our rating: 5 stars (Rated: PG-13, Running time: 2 hours, 32 mins)
Genre: Action, SuperHero/Comic book
isn’t Eagle Eye the one where Shia LaBeouf becomes Indiana Jones? wait a sec, i’m confused…
Yes! That’s where Shia Lebouf run around like a chicken with its head cut off…while a woman gives him orders on his cell phone! lol.
I am a world war 2 historian not an expert but close and I know the real story of the plot hands down. I agree completely with this review, the moview which I saw last night was a complete flop. I saw a movie about this that was made in the 80’s or early 90’s with no name actors and it was 100 times better, so dissapointing.
Allan Legacy
Such action movie make me feel fine last week end I went on to see this movie Valkyrie I have seen it. Tom is not my favorite actor but my buddy took me to. I thought it may not that much attractive. In the mean time watching the movie my total view of tom change because in this movie I saw him as very much characteristic person. I do feel his performance add more attraction to movie. Saw it on a website with lot of joy.
I LOVE YOU ROBERT!!!
hi,
@ the author of the artikel.
i totally agree with your opinion.
excuse my english.
http://www.zeit.de/online/2008/51/cruise-stauffenberg-kritik?page=2
this is a critique of the movie by one of the legitimate german newspapers. the whole artikle is very interesting but the burner is in the last vew sentences.
Bryan Singer said analogously: this was my attempt do to a “little movie” but i blew it
greetings from germany
I watched the Transformers cartoon version during my childhood days. It is nice to know that good computer graphics brought the Transformers back again. I wish to see more of the Dinobots in action perhaps on another sequel.