Dark Knight-Joker and Others Go Wild ***

Rating: 7/10 (6 August 2008)

The film is good but is very much over-rated. The Daily News rated this movie *****. It is rather a *** as I shall try to explain.
The acting is top-notch, especially Heath Ledger as the Joker and Aaron Eckhart, amazingly good as Harvey Dent, D.A.
This is one film that is rare since good does not triumph over evil. Dent's transformation is magnificently realized. It just shows us what situations can lead someone so pious to go so wrong.
The film is action packed. The special effects are marvelously arranged.
As far as the Oscars for this year go, an argument can be made that Ledger's performance should be in the supporting category as well as Eckhart. Gary Oldham,as Gordon, should also be in the running for a supporting Oscar as well as Maggie Gyllenhaal, who has really shown a depth of maturity here in a breakout performance.
My lone argument with this film is the last-half hour. Once the Gyllenhaal character is killed off, the film does go a bit down-hill. It becomes confusing at this point. Confusion we don't need as we wish to study the change in dimension depicted by Dent. That being said, the picture is one of a rare quality. A thin line is drawn between good and evil here and we wonder where we can go from here as the credits roll.