The Dark Knight – Movie Review
This movie takes off where Batman Begins left. If you did not see Begins, I highly recommend you do before seeing this awesome sequel.
Clearly the best bat man movie made to date. Forget about the first 4 Batman’s – Heath Ledger’s Joker makes Nicholson’s Joker look just like that – a joke. I was convinced Health was truly insane, a real wacko, and the fact that he has committed suicide since really adds to this theory. Imagine, getting to see that insanity live on film – you see it here. The most insane character yet. Well done Heath.
Of course Christian Bale has developed the dark knight character into a Batman that is believable, accompanied by Michael Caine as Alfred, and Morgan Freeman as Mr. Fox, Bruce Wayne’s “tech” guy. Fox makes MI6’s Q look like Barney with a chemistry set by the way – this team seems unstoppable.
An excellent beginning with a fresh look at a bank robbery that I believe has rarely been done on film. Here we have a group of bad buys, wearing clown masks. Yes, you guessed it, these would be the Joker’s men. They bust into a major bank, there are about 6 of them. Clown number 2 finishes his specialty job (perhaps it was dis-arming the alarms) and Clown number 1 immediately shoots him in the back of the head. He carries on and meets up with the rest of the clowns. Once the safe is opened, Clown #4 turns around and there is clown #2 who says, thanks for a job well done, the boss sends this message – and he shoots that clown dead. Carrying on with the robbery, the theme now seems to be once the job is done, the clown who has completed the job gets whacked. The next clown that gets whacked even makes a comment about the previous dead clown; something along the lines of “oh well, that just leaves more of a split for us.” What made him think he wasn’t going to get wacked too I don’t know, just naïve I guess.
Now that they have the money, there are only 2 clowns left. Number two clown is looking at the bags and says, “if the boss was so smart, he would have hired a bus to haul this cash away.” The last clown turns around and clown number 2 has his gun on him. He says, “I guess the boss told you to shoot me, once I had killed the rest eh?” the last clown says, “No, Im supposed to shoot the bus driver.” Clown number 2 says, “What bus driver?” and that is when a bus crashes through the building wall and final destinations clown number 2. The doors burst open and there is the bus driver. The last clown shoots him, loads up the money and splits from the job by himself. As he leaves in the bus, he gets in line with a row of other buses blending in nicely while the gotham city police drive to the crime scene unsuspecting of the busses. Meet the Joker. There is no fake chemicalized make up job like that of Nicholson’s joker. This joker ran into an emo and borrowed its make-up. It does have smiley scars on the sides of his face, and several different stories through out the movie as to how he came to have them. A real marilyn manson kind of look that works well, especially coupled with the fabulous acting job Heath was able to pull off. Every time the camera was on the joker, it rolled around and around in a continuous 360 degree motion which added to the psychoticness of the character. It was Kilmer Kreepy yet very enjoyable.
I won’t go on and spoil the entire film as this is one you will want to see for yourself and trust that it will be over two hours well spent. The movie is lengthy, but the story line moves along quickly and you do not get bored watching it.
They are following along the story line of Batman, The Dark Knight. As it was written, and true Batman fans will know and appreciate what a fabulously wonderful job they did. I was impressed beyond belief; this movie is a keeper. You are filled with a sense of pride and hope when the last scene comes to an end, the way a super hero movie was meant to be. Bravo!!