The Dark Knight

So I often leave movies that i am looking forward to a little disappointed. Often there is just too much hype. This movie is not like that. Heath ledger's performance is great, and the Oscar talk is very warranted. In The Dark Knight,The Joker reigns supreme. Villains are often very simple, and though they seem mysterious to other characters, we as an audience can see that they are flat characters. The Joker is extremely dynamic. He is scary and funny. Jack Nicholson had the laugh and the face to play the joker, but the joker in "Batman" was just someone to say clever whips and get beat by Batman. In the Dark Knight, Ledger is able to bring out the truly disturbed nature of the Joker. What is important is that there are differences between the villains of The Dark Knight and Batman Begins that were not found in any other movies. In the films of the 90s, all the villians were defined by their gimmick- Riddler, Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy, Penguin, Two-Face. They were all defined by their name. The Joker made jokes, the riddler told riddles Mr Freeze said "Everybody Freeze!" and Two-Face flipped a coin; but they only did what they did because their name was what it was. The JOker is not a gimmick, the joker is a true villain. The kind of villain you love to watch, because he is as good at evil as Batman is at good.

This movie was very exciting, it pulls you on and on further into the Joker's Psyche and Bruce Wayne's struggle to be Batman. The great parts of this movie are greater then Batman Begins, but there are parts of this movie that seem far-fetched, considering this is supposed to be the real life version (not the comic book version). Batman Begins didn't get as good as Dark Knight but it also did not have the moments of "What?" or "Thats not necessary?" or "Why did they add that?" Anyways I will probably go see this again. I reccomend it to anyone, who can stand some violence.

That being said its not grotesque, its not Saw or Hostel, its not even Lethal Weapon, because there isn't much if any profanity. If the way to overcome evil were to out evil it, if the way to destroy violence was to out violent the perpetuators of violence, if the way to overcome fear was to put fear into those who would use for evil, then this film would tell an amazing story to explain the world. As it is It is an amazing story and a great movie. Go Watch it.