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The follow-up to Batman Begins, The Dark Knight reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who reprises the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne in his continuing war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to destroy organized crime in Gotham for good. The triumvirate proves effective, but soon find themselves prey to a rising criminal mastermind known as The Joker, who thrusts Gotham into anarchy and forces Batman closer to crossing the fine line between hero and vigilante. Heath Ledger stars as archvillain The Joker, and Aaron Eckhart plays Dent. Maggie Gyllenhaal joins the cast as Rachel Dawes. Returning from Batman Begins are Gary Oldman as Gordon, Michael Caine as Alfred and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox.
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- The follow-up to Batman Begins, THE DARK KNIGHT reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who reprises the role of BATMAN /BRUCE WAYNE in his continuing war on crime. With the help of LT. JIM GORDON and District Attorney HARVEY DENT,BATMAN sets out to destroy organized crime in Gotham for good. The triumvirate proves effective, but soon find themselves prey to a rising criminalSee more technical details
By Glenn Santo (Long Island, NY USA)
Movie quality and packaging are unsurpassed. Shipping was highly excellent. Well thought out movie that brings new beginning to the Batman of days past.
By TissueShoe
When a film comes around that's as good as The Dark Knight, you simply can't miss it. This movie has not only one or even a few amazing aspects; every way you look at it it's impossible to call it bad. It goes over the top in almost all areas, especially in its crazy, suspenseful story, incredible buildup of suspense, and unrelenting depiction of evil.
(WARNING: This review contains many SPOILERS so I advise you to not read it unless you've seen the movie).
The Dark Knight tells an intense, suspenseful, and crazy story. Batman (a.k.a. Bruce Wayne) has continued to strike at the criminals of Gotham since we left him at the end of Batman Begins, and the outlaws are now getting desperate. The Joker then comes up with a brilliant idea to get these outlaws out of their mess: kill Batman. His price to carry out the job is pretty much half of the money this group of bad guys has, and he gets his way by threatening to pull the string off a grenade right in their midst. Of course, the Joker walks away with the promise of a fortune, which he couldn't care less about, and then begins to have some `fun.' To get to Batman, he decides to make him reveal his identity, and every day he stalls, people die. The stakes are raised even higher when the Joker is captured and his insane acts of evil continue to the very end, even after his final defeat.
One of the things that makes this film so memorable is the pure evil that is the Joker. Heath Ledger did a simply amazing job of portraying this character, and it's a shame that he'll never know he did the best acting job of the year. He portrays a villain that reveals the darkest corners of the human heart, a place I now have caught a glimpse of thanks to his incredible performance. The Joker is so brutal and merciless, blowing up a hospital being only one of his evil deeds. Yet despite his sheer brutality, he is absolutely hilarious as well. With lines such as "You complete me, you're just so much fun" and "I think we're destined to do this forever," (both of which are said to Batman) Joker's performance shows comedic genius and also depravation of all that is good.
Another interesting character is Harvey Dent. He is really a key figure in the plot, and he ends up teaching one of the more important lessons to glean from the film. He is Gotham's new district attorney, and ends up putting hundreds of criminals in prison within the course of a few days. His character and inspiration is portrayed in many scenes, and the court scene where he takes the guy's gun shows what he's like in his position and is also laugh out loud funny. But Gotham's White Knight (as they call him) ends up losing his future wife, and that on top of getting half his face burned off and a nice talk with the Joker contributes to him descending into madness. Throughout the final scenes of the film, Dent is seen killing people he finds responsible for the death of his beloved, and even shoots the Dark Knight himself. Dent is a clear portrayal of how people can go bad; how no man is good within his own power. If you think about it, Dent is also contrasted by the criminal who throws out the detonator in the ferry at the end of the film, a `bad guy' who does the right thing. I found that very interesting.
And of course, who could forget the Dark Knight himself? Again excellently portrayed by Christian Bale, Batman has many struggles in this film. Throughout the entire film, he is being pressed to reveal his identity, all the while struggling to protect the people of Gotham. Christian Bale makes a perfect Batman; he does a great job of portraying the wasteful billionaire by day and the dark, shady, rough-voiced Batman by night.
The entirety of The Dark Knight is centered around suspense. The buildup of tension is incredible, and I don't think I've ever seen a movie that kept me on the edge of my seat more than this. There's always the question of "Who is the Joker going to target next?" or "When will Batman reveal his identity to stop the killings?" or "Is he really going to blow up the hospital?" And the sequences of the film are all done so well that it really keeps you into it every moment and never loses you attention for a single breath.
The tension also builds up by way of sound. Hans Zimmer composed the score for The Dark Knight, and in that lies some incredibly epic pieces of music and some aggravating, yet tension-building, sounds. These noises hard to describe, actually, but they build up the suspense in an extraordinary way the likes of which I have never heard before. The music is just plain epic, giving you that hair-raising feeling that either something terrible is about to happen or Batman is about to do something insanely awesome. Or both.
The Dark Knight also has some fantastic visual effects. The explosions are spectacular, Batman's stunts are very entertaining, and everything seems totally realistic. The effects are quite plentiful too, but sometimes you forget they are effects because they just look so real.
Before I continue ranting and raving about how ridiculously awesome The Dark Knight is, I think I should end this review. The Dark Knight is one of the very best movies I have ever seen with its fantastic and deep story, amazing visual effects, quality acting, epic soundtrack, and buildup of suspense. The suspense is really one of the film's strongest points, and the ways in which that is done can be looked to as an example for future films. When it's all said and done, The Dark Knight is just 2 ½ hours of awesomeness.
SCORE: 10/10
By Adriane L. Mummert (Southcentral PA, USA)
This movie is intense. Heath Ledger does an eerily wonderful job playing The Joker, and the story is portrayed meticulously. Be warned that it is very dark. If you're looking for a light-hearted comedy, The Dark Knight is far from your pick. But if you are looking for a graphic action-packed superhero thriller with an intricate plot and fast-paced scenes, Batman is right on the money.
By David B. Vargas
Nolan creates a new superheroe movie genre with "Begins" and "The Dark Night", it would be great to see how other Batman comic villians are developed in sequels with this same "more real characters" concept, just hope Nolan keeps on charge of directing these. It would also have been fantastic that this same concept had been applied to the desastrous "Superman Returns" film, altough this would be much more difficult becouse Batman has no superpowers and that's why he can be more real. Superman haves superpowers, which opposes to this concept, so after "The Dark Night" it's going to be an almost impossible mission for directors to create this same atmosfer with a Superman film. Sad, Superman is my favorite superhero, but "The Dark Night" is definetly my favorite superhero movie.
By A. Davis (Tucson)
Will someone please tell me why this is "the best movie of all time"? Is it because it was Heath Ledger's last completed performance? (To tell you the truth it wasn't even that good, It was as good as Tim Curry in "IT", except with a really annoying cowboy voice) I tried watching this for like the 2nd or 3rd time, but it was just so slow and boring! It was just Joker pissing off Batman the whole movie...You might as well just watch Problem Child (I was more entertained with that, actually) Seriously, their was NO PLOT! except Batman saying "Ah! After a year of this crap, I'm starting to get tired of fightin' the bad guys, harvey is better off doin' it!" Another thing that really irritated me is that The Joker? This isn't the Joker! It's just some annoying Bum with scars and flower smacked on his face...and a cowboy accent! Not to mention Christian Bale's Cookie Monster impression through-out the whole thing.
And with Chris Nolan, everything has to be realistic as possible...Why!? It's a comic book, Not The Godfather for crying out loud! What else was bad? Maggie Gyllenhaul, I'd rather look at Predator's face for 2 hrs long. Alright, let me think of something good that came out of this...The photography, That was easily the nicest thing about this movie (the reason for TWO stars) flying over Chicag-, oh, wait... Gotham (and Hong Kong)! Yeah, that was cool. And the helicopter scene, when it gets thrown down, by two little pieces of yarn. So, yeah. Awful excuse for a "Batman" movie.
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