the Dark Knight on screen

Rating: 9/10 (18 June 2005)

This movie truly surpassed the old 90's Batman movies, even the first Batman with Keaton/Nicholson, I know blasphemy but stay with me. It really put Batman together piece by piece. I am a big fan of the Batman comics since Frank Miller came around and made him change from the "Caped Crusader" to the "Dark Knight". Those comics gave Batman AND his villains a dark, violent edge to them that they deserved. This movie really touches on that. They made Bruce Wayne a man out for Justice not a man out for adventure in a Bat-suit. By no means is this movie a "straight from the pages of the comic book" like the Movie Sin-City was but it did have a lot of comic references and attitude which made it a very well done adaption. Christian Bale really gave a great effort as a man pretending to be Bruce Wayne while hiding his REAL face, Batman. The villains of the movie were great too. Ra's Al Ghul and Scarecrow made a great team and the actors that played them were nothing short then awesome. They also added (what I was looking for in the other Batman movies but it was hardly ever there) a personal relationship between Batman and Gordon, which has always been a important corner stone of Batman comics. Admittingly some of the movie is a little cheesy but then again so is the idea of a "Batman". This movie had the feeling of a Frank Miller/Jeph Loeb Batman story but with a Chris Nolan touch. Good comic movie, grade A.
P.S. And for you people that watch the movies and not read the comic the Joker does NOT kill Wayne's parents for the last time! That was just made from the 1989 Batman movie. So shut up already