Hail the Dark Knight...Nolan delivers the best Batman by far!

Rating: 10/10 (15 June 2005)

Batman is one to take seriously. I Burton brought in his intriguing universe and Schumacher his disco lights, Nolan and his scriptwriter David Goyer consider that humor in Batman is minimal if not misplaced when talking about the darkest of the 'super heroes' of the comics universe. With a 180° turn one can have anything permitted. The psychology can be developed, the trauma and thus the hero's ambiguity. And this is perfectly done. Nothing is superfluous, everything is logic and moving.bale, Caine, Oldman and Holmes are all greatly casted and seem like they were the ones the Batman series have been waiting for to play the roles. Let's welcome with arms wide opened a corrupted, dark, menacing and horrid universe which characterizes Gotham City. Richly visual, the movie also depicts Wayne as a man torn between his thirst for vengeance and his sense of justice. Thus it's a full return to the myth: dark, worrying, without any form of worthless information, a world where Good and Evil are separated by a very thin line - just as in the greatest of the Films Noirs. Batman thus recovers his long lost aura, his honor and can now begin. Of course there are some conflicting views: the villains' charisma (that of the Joker can't be equaled - the movie lets the door wide opened for a sequel with The Joker as main villain) even though Cylian Murphy who had much to do with his character of Scarecrow got out quite well with it. Nolan does not try to force upon us a new visual treatment or a new way of directing the movie. He rather prefers a certain narrative universe totally new, at the same level of complexity of Batman's/Wayne's character and the universe that follows with him. In grand finale, there's no disappointment but rather a great pleasure in seeing that Bale, Nolan and Goyer go straight to the point and deliver to us, pleased viewers, hardcore fans or neophytes, a perfect black diamond. PERFECT