What a great plan

Rating: 10/10 (18 July 2008)

The Dark Knight is without a doubt the most exciting motion picture so far this summer, and I would be so bold as to guess this year. It is nothing short of fantastic when a move captures your attention, and when it leaves you riveted for two and half hours, well WOW does not come close. Everyone should take a moment and reflect on the brilliance of Heath Ledger's performance, and share a conflicted sentiment of joy and sorrow. Joy in this was the most incredible culmination of a talented life's work; and sorrow as we will not see it happen again. Is his performance Oscar worthy, well yes in as much as a life time achievement award most certainly. With the homage paid to an incredible lost talent, it is critical to point out that Ledger alone did not make the Dark Knight the best picture so far this year. There was simply not a weak performance delivered by any of the cast, Christian Bale who seems to be born for this role to Gary Oldman who is terrifically diverse and compelling in his role as James Gordon Aaron Eckhart brings the visually stunning Two-Face to life with chilling excellence, he has been able to bring with him great performances all the way back to the movie Thursday, being a dark and twisted character comes strikingly natural. In the hope of being somewhat fair the entire support cast performed admirably and with Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Caine, and Morgan Freeman this film has been truly set up for critical and box office success. Finally Christopher Nolan has given us an exceptional screen play and directed an extremely entertaining film with great visual effects and stunning camera work, no other director should be allowed near this franchise as Nolan clearly has this character and world pegged. I thoroughly enjoyed this film and regardless of the pop-culture craze around it and that it lends itself to the darker side of the Batman franchise this film is head and shoulders above any of the previous films, this is certainly one to see in the theatre and perhaps more than one time.