A hero movie with no heroes

Rating: 9/10 (16 November 2008)

A hero with super weapons and giant muscle is not very special, at least in Hollywood. No one wonders that the comic heroes play great roles that everybody dreams of but never will come true. Once the man or woman does something without his or her "ability", but fight against villains through the normal way, we consider that special. Some Chinese fans aren't quite familiar with the US's comic culture, as well as the variety of super heroes, people always consider all heroes are like Superman, insuperable. So, as a result a hero starred film does not surprise viewers and is given a low rating. Long before I saw the Dark Knight, there were lots of news about it, and what stunned me was that it was rated over 9.0. It looked quite impossible because in my opinion only those motion pictures like God Father and Il Buono Il Brutto Il Cattivo should deserve that kind of enormously incredible rating. Recent films rarely received a bunch of favorable views, for most of the audiences nowadays are critical and censorious. Yesterday I finally saw this movie in the dark, as I was sitting in the dark. A first psychological reaction was depression, although the Gotham City was not as dark and hopeless as in another 4 Batman movies. I knew that Chris Nolan was good at movies dark and dazzling plots. In this dark film, Batman just improved his armor because he was bitten by a dog. His car was broken down many times; we saw bruises on his back. When super ability couldn't deal with the trouble, citizens might need mast Wayne to pull the gun. Americans are proud of their judicial system, but in Gotham it failed. The D.A was desperate because he couldn't fight criminals at court. Instincts call on hero, with his power. But there are no heroes at all ,just ordinary people. Even though I thought it wasn't reasonable that Dent transformed because of his Half face and loss of Rachel. And he could not possibly do so much damage to the villains. I won't expect another dark movie on IMDb top 10.