GhostRiderfan1 revisits The Dark Knight

With The Dark Knight Rises finishing the popular Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy, I figured why not do a review of The Dark Knight. So here it is.

The Dark Knight is arguablly the greatest superhero movie ever made, no doubt. From the acting, to the directing, to the cinematography, to the editing, to the tone. The Dark Knight really is an epic, following the events of Batman Begins, the story follow Bruce Wayne trying to help Gotham recover from going down under and things are getting better a little bit at a time. But arrives The Joker, phsycopathic murder who's goal in life is just to watch the world burn. In the mist of it all Harvey Dent and the Gotham Police Department are gathering up the mobs and trying to help stop The Joker.

From the opening bank robbery sequence the movie grabs you and holds you for one of the wildest, craziest and most fun rides of your life. The acting is monumental from Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman, to Heath Leadger as The Joker, to Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent/Two-Face. I really enjoyed the acting from everybody except... Maggie Gyllynhal. I absolutely DO NOT like her as an actress and I feel the should've kept Katie Holmes as Racheal but that's just me. Christopher Nolan does an amazing job like all of his movies directing it. He knows his vision, he knows what he wants and he goes after it. Unfortunately even after watching the movie so many times, every now and again it's hard for me to get into it because for me almost half of the movie drags, it drags when things get good and it kills it for me. The editing is great and tells the story even better, and the cinematography is like the visual effects of the little they used and is amazing. It's faster paced than Batman Begins but it leaves me wanting more from it. I'm not a DC fan except Batman and I don't know much about the property but as I felt with Batman Begins they should've stuck with the original love interest for the film and the hero they've always been true to. Heath Leadger's Joker is phenomenal and leaves me amazed everytime and I wish it were possible to bring him into the next film. Christopher Nolan has made these movies as true to the comics but also sways from them and grounds it more into reality than the comics, hints the reason as long as Christopher Nolan is directing we won't see Killer Croc or Poison Ivy or Mr. Freeze or some of the more cooler characters.

At the end of the day The Dark Knight is one of the best CBM's to ever be made. There are some flaws that we're made but I focused more on the film and the acting and everything else pretty much as a whole. The film drags alot though and that's why I am giving it a 9/10.