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Directed By
Christopher Nolan
Written By:
Bob Kane, Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer, Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
Cast:
Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Michael Caine, William Fichtner, Anthony Michael Hall, Aaron Eckhart, Eric Roberts, Michael Jai White, Nestor Carbonell, Melinda McGraw, Monique Curnen, Nathan Gamble, Chucky Venice, Danny Goldring, Vincenzo Nicoli, Chin Han, Sarah Jayne Dunn, Chin Han, Nydia Melroy
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The Dark Knight (2008)
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Movie Review by Jeff 
July 28th, 2008
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You know the THE DARK KNIGHT is going to be just a little different than it's predecessor BATMAN BEGINS as it opens in daylight instead of darkness. What you don't know is just how different the movie is going to be.
Batman has sent the underworld spinning into a tizzy by his crime fighting efforts and all the criminal element in Gotham wants to do is get everything back to normal. Normal is a far cry from where Gotham is headed. The mob contracts out with the new kid on the block, that clown jester of macabre, The Joker. At first they don't trust him, however they then realize his sole purpose of killing the Batman is exactly what needs to be done to restore disorder in Gotham.
From the moment Heath Ledger as the The Joker is revealed on screen there is no turning away, literally. You never want to take your eyes off him because this performance is mesmerizing. THE DARK KNIGHT was so hyped that it seemed anything short of one of the best super hero movies ever made, or for that matter the best superhero every made, would be a letdown. Well. lucky for us (and the studio) this movie was simply put, in this reviewers opinion the best Batman film ever made. Ledger's performance (and unfortunately his last) is one of the finest performances ever captured on film for the American cinema. Ledger takes a character we have known in the pop culture for years and totally breaks the mold. He turns a fun, vicious clown villain into a psychotic, manic terrorist.
The movie itself takes us on a roller coaster through Gotham from the highs of the new white knight in shining armor of D.A. Harvey Dent to the lows of the established dark knight in Batman. We find James Gordon still giving a pass to the Batman to allow him to help fight crime as much as possible to the chagrin of the public.
Director Christopher Nolan's take on the Batman story is nothing short of a masterpiece. The story is a symphony of cinematic storytelling that other super hero movies, or for that matter movies will be compared to. The only complaint I had with this movie was some of the action scenes could have been clipped here and there and we could have seen just a little more of The Joker. These are very small complains and are hardly even worth mentioning.
THE DARK KNIGHT has reinvented the expectations of the studio - men, boys, women, girls, they all came out to see this movie. It seems to be inexplicable for people that study demographics and charts to see how to target and audience. Maybe it's simply people like good movies and are really sick and tired of bad stories and bad movie-making and were ready to embrace something more, something amazing, something darker.
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