The Dark Knight

be warned its a superhero film in name only.

you'll come away feeling like you watched a proper film with the superheroness as a trimming

one before was better

Its the sort of film that if you had not read a single word of the hype it carried, you would probaley be saying that was of the best films i have ever seen.

The problem WAS the hype that came with it making people try to find stuff in it that really wasn't supposed to be there.

Didn't like the Two Face ending to be honest and the Joker did take some getting used to from the comics but a great film

Just an ok film

I rate Christopher Nolan highly as a director , the Batman Films are the worst things he's done

This Review sums it up well imo

Why So Pretentious? The Dark Knight, The Edge of Heaven, Mamma Mia!
By Fernando F. Croce


The Dark Knight is middling as a summer blockbuster, zero as art, and more than a bit alarming as a phenomenon. Christopher Nolan is a director who in six films hasn't stumbled upon a single human emotion, yet the opening of his new contraption, a nasty yet efficient bank holdup that introduces the late Heath Ledger as The Joker, is true, virile filmmaking. His staccato grace dissolves during the ludicrously blurry action sequences, but, if he can resist the urge to edit a car chase with a garbage disposal, Nolan might one day grab Walter Hill's torch. The difference is that Hill takes comic book-like material (Johnny Handsome, say) and turns it into pulp spectacle, while Nolan, dealing with a real comic book, puffs it up with bogus profundities and counterfeit "darkness."

For the sequel to his Batman Begins, Nolan has an appropriately schematic structure: Christian Bale's tortured-millionaire**caped-vigilante Bruce Wayne on one side, Ledger's sadistic pagliacci on the other, and Aaron Eckhart's untouchable DA Harvey Dent waiting in the middle for the Two-Face split. Gotham City is supposed to be a stand-in for our troubled zeitgeist, full of the kind of fear and moral confusion a self-proclaimed "terrorist" jack-in-the-box can feed on. Pungent concepts. Tastefully laid out on the table and spelled out for the viewer with dialogue-balloons ("You're the symbol of hope I could never be," Batman tells Dent), that's all they remain -- concepts. For such an allegedly ferocious narrative, this is an unaccountably chilly and antiseptic movie, as plodding and jejune (and as satisfied with its own "subversion") as the screen version of Alan Moore's V for Vendetta.

To be fair, The Dark Knight did provide the most chilling moment I have had at the movies all summer. I giggled at the ridiculous growl Bale employed from under his Batman mask, and was readily met with death stares from my neighboring viewers: Holy Mass had been violated. Please. Dude dresses like a bat, and suddenly cinema at long last fulfills its potential? It's bad enough when rabid fanboys become so prissy about the film's "awesomeness" that they fuse into one huge, fat-assed Comic Book Guy declaring "Worst critic ever!" at any questioning review; it's doubly depressing when the critics themselves swallow the hype machine's baby food and call it caviar for the ages. Ledger's Joker, for instance, has already been deemed a villain worthy of anthologies and posthumous awards, but kindness to a dead artist does no favors to the living -- for all the smeared make-up, demonic tongue-lolling and singsongy slur, his "agent of chaos" strikes me as a boringly busy performance. Then again, it's scarcely surprising that a film with lines like "the only morality in a cruel world is chance" would be given instant masterpiece status these days. It's been said that Nolan's film is this year's No Country for Old Men, and indeed it is: Dour, numbing, empty, and humping its one note of negativism over and over until people intone it like the Holy Writ. The Dark Knight is not "a portrait of our times," but the fact that so many supposed adults keep squandering precious ink over elaborate exaltations of its relevance is a portrait of our times

To be fair, The Dark Knight did provide the most chilling moment I have had at the movies all summer. I giggled at the ridiculous growl Bale employed from under his Batman mask...

gayerist imo

i didnt understand people moaning about bales batman voice, i always found it odd other actors after going to the trouble of wearing the costume didnt bother to hide/change the voice.

dont listen to those trying to be different, its brilliant

do i need to know any possible story from any previous batman film ?

Of course, the 'cool' people like to go against the tide and say it's rubbish. Make a name for themselves perhaps.

Unfortunately BF forum has more than it's fair share.

Class, better than I expected

I thought it was a very well made film and held my attention which takes some doing I can tell you