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“The Dark Knight has certainly and slightly morbidly...”

written by Quibbon101 on 28/07/2008

Good Points
Heath Ledgers performance, the action was entertaining and the film was original.

Bad Points
More Bruce Wayne would have been good. Was Two-Face needed?

General Comments
The Dark Knight has certainly and slightly morbidly benefited from Heath Ledgers death, people have a fascination with seeing a posthumous performance and with one as sophisticated and mesmerising as Ledgers it is easy to see why. As such the film has been hyped for weeks before it's release date and as I went to watch at the Imax on the 25th of July I was turned away as it had been sold out all day. Yet as I moved to a normal screening I couldn't help feeling that what is essentially a pseudo superhero movie, Batman has no powers, the film could never live up to the hype.
I was thankfully wrong, this film is a brilliant film, a blockbuster with more brains than many of the independent films out there. However anyone who has children think before you take them to see this because this film is dark and I mean very dark. Not in the way that Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is but truly dark. I wonder in fact how it got a 12A rating. Sure it never shows the guys cheeks getting cut open or the pencil go into the mans head but it tells you it happened and that is possibly even more disturbing.
The performances are brilliant with every actor and I mean every one putting their heart and soul in. Ledger is certainly the stand out performer however he does have brilliant lines and an ensemble cast to act off. Harvey Dent is another good actor who manages to create sympathy around his character after he turns to Two-Face. However the Two Face part is somewhat of a problem. I do wonder if this film even at 2hours 30 needed two villains.
However it is things like that that make the film so original, there is in some way's no real plot, things just happen but with the focus on the chaotic nature of the joker this makes sense and represents the character. There are times when it seems as if you not watching a comic book movie but a psychological thriller. This film doesn't pander to the audience. It is what it is and asks you simply to watch and judge it one what it does.