Very good film theres action through out all the film and the film is pretty long i think heath ledger does some very good acting along with cristian bale.

loved the dark imagery of the whole movie! a great twist to the batman series! i wish they could have picked a more charasmatic actress to play the part of rachel than Maggie Gyllenhaal, though. Christian Bale, Micheal Cain, and Heath Ledger definitely outshone her by far!

Best Film 2008: The Dark Knight, Best Director: Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight, Best Actor: Heath Ledger, The Joker, The Dark Knight.

Well, those will be the Oscar results if there's any justice. The Superhero has always been a huge genre in the film world, and The Dark Knight sets the bar way way high. I would like to begin this review by talking about Christopher Nolan. Batman and Batman returns were good movies. Then what followed were Jim Carey, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Tommy Lee Jones etc etc doing their almighty best to ruin Batman. Movies that were just about making huge amounts of money and not giving a damn about the history of Batman. But thanks to Nolan, Batman has reached the top of the mountain as the best superhero out there.

Following on from the outstanding Batman Begins, this film was always going to have a tough job to make Batman even better. We rejoin the Bat (Christian Bale) as he continues his fight against the mob who have gained a new friend. And his name's The Joker (Heath Ledger), the greatest villain of this generation. Which brings me to Heath Ledger. Now after his death in January of this year, many pessimists will use that as the sole reason as to why everyone was so impressed with his performance. But, quite simply, Ledger is fantastic. Evil, arrogant and downright hilarious, he makes The Joker role his own.

Batman appears to have gained his own friend in charismatic Distric Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhat). Dent is an elected official who is determined to stamp out crime in Gotham City. Both have Commissioner Gordon on their side, played by the terrific Gary Oldman, and are both battling for the heart of Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal).

The Dark Knight is an amazing spectacle. Every performance is fantastic (a big shout out also to Michael Caine who is terrific again as Alfred), the action scenes are immense, and the direction of Nolan fantastic. The film, at a length of over 2 hours, flies by, and once the credits roll you'll be disappointed its all over - after you've finished applauding that is.

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.