The Dark Knight

Genre: Action

Year of release:2008

Director: Christopher Nolan

"I believe whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you... stranger. "

Best bad guy fullstop. Heath Ledgers performance is simply perfect. His Joker is both funny, scary, creepy and absolutely awesome. For over a whole year me and the rest of the world waited for this movie. I was not disappointed.

The Dark Knight tells the story of Batman, Harvey Dent and Gordon and their struggles to take down the Joker in his crazy schemes "to watch the world burn." This is a great movie I have now seen all of Christian Bales films and this is his best beating Memento, the Prestige and defiantly Batman Begins. Although the spotlight is stolen by Heath, Aaron Eckhart was also great and Christian Bale did pretty good, many people thought his batman voice was annoying i can see what they mean by that but, meh, I don't care.

Heath Ledger (RIP) just like James Dean did not get to live when he was most popular. Heaths performance suited the Joker so incredibly well. I knew that Christopher Nolan would make a Joker that was realist and believable, it just had to be. The Batman movies that Nolan makes are no joke, Batman is not for kids anymore, the film is dead serious and goes past being just a super hero movie, Batman is not a super hero he is what the city truly needs whether they citizens like it or not. So I knew that the Joker would be a crazy realistic character a whole year before this movie came out. The Dark Knight belongs to Heath performance.

I enjoy the story of this movie, I enjoy watching Batman's reaction to the Jokers outrageous behavior, I enjoyed the whole what will happen next type of thing. In the cinema both times that I have seen it I was on the edge of my seat the first time I got a little sore afterward from sitting in one position for 2 and half hours. The Dark knight is jammed full of great action scenes. The Dark knight brings you to some very great suspenseful moments that have had my eyes glued to the screen.

Although this is a serious movie there are a larger amount of laughs in it then I expected, quite a lot of scene are really funny. The Joker is the main reasons for this through his sick and crazy ways.

The Joker did defiantly steal the spotlight of this movie, however some of the other actors were also very good for instance Aaron Eckhart who played Harvey Dent. Aaron was also quite great in "Thank you for smoking." However after The Dark Knight I hope he will be in a lot more good movies. Christian Bale too was good he creates a bad ass batman that is not concerned with whether he is a hero or not "I like that." Just like in Watchmen (the graphic novel I just read) it makes things more realistic and removes it from the super hero category. Bales voice has been found to be quite annoying, I can see how many people think that, it did not annoy me too badly I was enthralled in this movie too much. I am a fan of Bales' works I love the Prestige, Rescue Dawn, 3:10 to Yuma and more this is his best film.

In conclusion I enjoyed this movie sooooooo much because its my type of movie, it is no God Father, still critically a great movie but there are many others that critically are far superior.

9.5/10