The plot is simple yet complex, because there are motives, strange motives, no motives, and morale questioning to the highest degree. There is no real origin story to Heath Ledger's Joker. He just pops into town to stir a little anarchy. He even uses a different story each time he explains the scar across his deranged face. No, instead of "My Daddy Never Hugged Me," his excuse for his actions is simply "Because I Wanted To," or something to the extent of that. Basically he turns Gotham against itself where you can't trust anyone but yourself, cuz you never know if you might die, particularly police officers. Clearly this doesn't sit well with our Bat-friend, as anyone could figure out, as Bruce Wayne spends the rest of the film trying to track Heath down and teach him a lesson or two in the process.
With such an overly-simple plot, it's hard to take in the fact that still so much stuff goes on in the movie. There's mafia dealings, endless car chases, so many times you think they've finally nabbed the Joker and the movie can end peacefully and then BAM! an elaborately successful escape attempt. This isn't saying the movie is predictable, it's anywhere but. It's so ingenious you can't grab hold of how truly simple it is. It's good guy looks for bad guy to put him in jail. But the inner workings of the Joker's mind make him the biggest wild card you'll ever see. Truly Ledger's performance will go down in history, even if he doesn't posthumously receive an Oscar (which I honestly don't think he will just because the Oscars aren't cool any more). Better than Jack Nicholson BY FAR!!! Again, if you argue this point, you're as insane as the Joker. Christian Bale's performance is as good as in the first one. He puts a lot of dark in Batman and a lot of light in Bruce Wayne. He's easily the best Batman in film, and his suit doesn't have Bat-nipples, or Bat-buttocks, anything's better than that. What I liked most about this movie is the fact that there is almost no computer animation. Of course they had to use it for Dent's face and some scenes where trucks couldn't possibly fly that high in the air without visible wires, but they actually flipped that Semi, and Bale participated in some of his own stunts too.
I really must stop praising this movie, or else risk depleting all my praise reserves for other films. There's nothing bad about this movie, other than the fact that whenever Bale speaks in long monologues as Batman it sounds kind of funny, but you can easily overlook that, cuz it's just that legendary a movie to diss. I give this the only A+ I'll probably ever give. It's just that good. Go see it. Go see it again. Maybe see it a third time. God, I just love this movie!
The Dark Knight: A+
4 comments:
Why So Serious?
Chris, spam your friends with more of our fiendish BDT propaganda. And remind them it's free.
And remind them that they'll get paid if one of them shouts, "I love you, Ebey!"
Huh I don't remember writing that?
Anyway now that I actually read the review I think that it is pointless to compair Heath to Jack because they are two entirely different Jokers there both good for the two interperations of the Joker. Plus I remember you saying that you did not see the Tim Burton Batman movies so I think that is pointless for you to compair them because you have not seen that Batman.
Whatever great review
I actually have seen Tim Burton's Batman.....twice.
But I think I only saw it once before the review...
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