" What I do that defines me"

Rating: 10/10 (1 April 2007)

To quote Batman (Christian Bale) before he leaps into flight to save Gotham, "It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me". Apply that standard to the production of this movie and everyone involved has elevated themselves to a higher level. This not only puts every Batman movie or any superhero movie for that matter to shame, but I am hard pressed to recall any movie in recent years that has provided it's audience with such a complete character as Bale's Dark Knight. The cast (Bale,Caine,Freeman,Oldman,Neeson,Holmes) was second to none and it's because of the quality and intensity that such performers bring to their craft along with a truly magnificent production that enabled this movie to flourish without the mandatory nudity and profanity that todays productions seem to need to keep their audiences awake through the painful unfolding of inept plots that shamelessly pick our pockets of eight dollars. Everyone that I recommended this movie to came back to me a few days later with nothing but praise. My employees are Teamsters and Operating Engineers. They loved it. My kids loved it. My mother loved it. My friends loved it. My accountant,as well as the girl at Best Buy that sold me my second copy loved it. A true masterpiece and let's hope the follow up effort does not sell out and will due "justice" to the parent effort.