The Dark Knight (2008) - 8.6

Rating: 9/10 (2 October 2019)

The Dark Knight (2008) - 8.6
Act 1 - 8.5
Act 2 - 8.4
Act 3 - 9.0
All performances are great
Heath Ledger is the obvious stand out and completely steals the movie
The character is incredibly developed and there is so much mystery about who he is that it lets the audience project their ideas onto him
Character just wants to create chaos and make people think about the lives they are living
Cinematography is great, score is great, uses ticking clock sound to keep the pace and tension high quite often in the film
Film challenges the audience to come up with their own decisions that the Joker puts the people in the film in
The action scenes and Batman's costumes are both dated and do bring down the film a bit now
But I was more focused on the characters and ideals of those characters which this film excels at
Still a great film that absolutely holds up

Opening heist is incredibly planned and tense with the continuous ticking which elevated the intensity
An all time movie sequence
Great way to introduce us to the mastermind that is the Joker
Scarecrow is still around and dealing in things illegally
Batman suit and the fight scenes do already seem a bit outadated
Meet the knew District Attorney, Harvey Dent who will later become Twoface and is doing after the mob with Rachel
Joker propositions the mob leaders to pay him to kill the Batman, great scene
So many great and iconic lines
Batman goes to China and takes Lao
Lao gives all his clients up for immunity and the entire mob gets charged with crimes
Joker says Batman must turn himself in or else he will continue to kill people
Love how the Joker is constantly changing the story of his scares not letting anybody, including the audience know anything about the man beneath the makeup
Joker kills people involved with taking down the mob, goes after Harvey but can't get to him because of Batman
Jokers next target was the mayor but Commissioner Gordon gets shot and pronounced dead
Harvey starts to crack when Rachel is presumed to be the next target
Bruce decides he will reveal he is Batman to stop Joker from killing, also Bruce said Rachel would be with him once he was done being Batman
The people want the Batman to turn himself in and Harvey reveals himself to be the Batman so the real Batman can continue to stand for something great and stop the Joker
Joker chasing after Harvey during the police escort has a lot of bad stuff in it, really bad dialogue by extras and a lot of cliche people on the street not believing what they are seeing sort of shots, takes you out of what should be an intense action scene
Commissioner Gordon is revealed to be alive and helps capture the Joker as part of the overall plan
Police can't get any info from about the Joker once he is in custody, he is a completely unknown man
Joker outsmarted them and has taken Harvey to an undisclosed location
Joker tells Batman that he completes him and doesn't want to kill him
Amazing scene with the Joker and Batman talking in the interrogation room, Joker says he has to choose between Dent and Rachel and he is going after Rachel and Gordon is going after Dent
Joker swapped the locations on them and Batman ends up saving Harvey who gets his face burned in the blast but is ok and Rachel dies as the police didn't get there in time and at the same time Joker has escaped, he is an unstoppable mastermind
Alfred reads Rachel's note and says that she was going to marry Harvey and decides not to give Brice the note
Harvey wakes up and is refusing help and has lost it after Rachel's death and now has a face that reveals his Two Face inner feelings
Joker gets his money and burns it and is taking over the mob as he wants to send a message
Joker then says he will blow up a hospital in 60 minutes if the guy on TV who is going to reveal Batman's identity isn't dead, sends city into chaos
Joker says he hates plans and scheming, wants anarchy and wants to break order
Follows through and blows up a hospital but everyone was evacuated, one bus of people was taken by the Joker though
Joker says he will take the city tonight
Dent is out and taking out everyone involved in the death of Rachel and using the coin to decide who lives and dies
Two ferries, one with prisoners and one with civilians, detonators are in boxes on the ferries and each boat is rigged to blow
Detonators go to each other's boats and they must decide who lives and dies or else they all die
Amazing scenario and social experiment that the Joker has created
Harvey has taken Gordon's kids
Fight sequence with swat and the hostages isn't very good
Both passenger boats decide not to kill each other showing that their is hope for humanity and the Jokers plan doesn't work
Jokers monologue after he is caught by Batman is fantastic about their relationship and who the people in the city really are, knows Harvey was his true win to take away hope from the city by pushing him
Harvey shoots Batman but tackles him when he is about to kill Gordon's son, Harvey is dead and the Joker has won
Batman tells Gordon to blame the deaths that Harvey is responsible for on him so people keep their hope and tells Gordon to condemn his actions
Police will now hunt Batman
Gordon says he is a true hero and a protector of the city, a Dark Knight
Great end to the film, get emotional for the sacrifices that Batman has to make