The fourth part is called illusion. The magician shows us something ordinary as something magical

Rating: 8/10 (15 February 2010)

Do you know tricky coins? It is an ordinary coin at first look, but two-sided. One picture on each side. When you start to turn it continuously, the picture seems like it moves or changes. I don't know the name of it, but in the movie, Sleepy Hollow, there was one. Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight is like this tricky coin. You look, it seems like a crime epic and sometimes innovative, sometimes stylish, sometimes entertaining, but when you stop turning, it becomes mediocre, sometimes far fetched, sometimes illogical, sometimes scratchy and sometimes insipid. The opening sequence is so impressive. It is clearly seen that Nolan inspired from Heat as he said. Then, in the bank, we see an 'unusual' bank manager. By that, Nolan tries to say my movie will be different. This was a realistic Batman movie, wasn't it? However, Batman flies at the minibus and he jumps off a high place, but does not get injured. As for his voice, it sounds good, but a bit unrealistic and in theater it sounded ridiculous because of the subwoofer. Yes, the movie has a few smart ideas, for example, while Bruce Wayne changes his clothes, there are scars, bruised wounds on several parts of his body or Nolan gets Batman enter a disco which is postmodern, interesting. And Heroes never make mistakes or heroes are always good. The Dark Knight does not say these. The movie is like a drama, a crime epic. The atmosphere, the mood are stylish. All these are good.. Not only The darkest Batman movie after Batman Returns, but also one of the darkest movies so far. The scene that Joker gets on the stage first is my favorite. A scene the character deserves. Nolan's Joker is appealing, interesting, but lack of many things that Jack Nicholson's Joker had. And there is ''the criminal who does not care about money'' cliché. To play Joker after Jack Nicholson's acting, performance had seemed impossible. It is like play Hannibal Lecter after Anthony Hopkins, but Heath Ledger did it. This happens once in a blue moon. His acting is excellent. However, Nolan's Joker is passive and not a colorful character as it should be. Nolan does not highlight any character, so can we say that Nolan does not care about the details? Because, it seems that the actions or personality of Joker was not emphasized. The killing scene in the billiard room was odd, everything is off screen, but may be otherwise, it would have been too disturbing, but Nolan could have found 'the middle' of it. The scenes take place in Hong Kong were familiar to me. It was like a copy of Mission: Impossible 3 and there is one more action movie with the same concept, but cannot remember the name. The second goof. The distance between two buildings are extremely far. I should say the third one. Batman and Rachel fall from the penthouse of a skyscraper and within an inch of hitting the ground. Batman opens his wings, but they don't even get injured and Rachel cracks a joke! It seems that Nolan and his brother cannot decide the past of Joker, because he tells different stories about how he became like that? but this is not real important, just a bit frustrating. The ceremony scene is great, you feel like you watch a crime epic. These are the moments that the magician deludes the audiences. This is a pretty conventional, usual movie. A showy car chase, people who get panicked in ships (unbearably uninteresting), remote controlled bombs which a dull and extremely cliché idea. There are some far fetched scenes either. The sick prisoner in the jail was far fetched, Joker should have found a way to do that! In this movie, Joker is not acute minded like Jack Nicholson's Joker, Nolan tries to show him smart, but fails. The escape scene can be an example. Or they say Joker wanted to be caught. No he does not. In contrast, the questioning sequence was brilliant, touching by parallel story telling. The moment that he bashes Joker's hand was disturbing. Also, this part was the most depressive part of the movie. However, later Batman hits a man's car mirror while he picks his teeth! If Alan Moore wrote these lines, I don't know what he would do, but I did not like the new Batman costume, it is not stylish, the one in Begins was the best, very appealing, impressive, but this is not. Two Face. He appears as Two Face in the last 30 minutes approx. You know, they did the same thing in Spider-Man 3. Nolan repeats this mistake deliberately. The injured side of his face is disgusting like a zombie, good news for horror fans and I had not expected a cute face, but it could have been better. By the way, the way of becoming Two Face was far fetched. Couldn't they find a better idea? As for action, the car chase was extreme and entertaining, but conventional, it does not raise the bar. And I hate that S.W.A.T. members always crack jokes while in danger. This is superficial. Then why? Because this is an audience-driven movie. Audiences should laugh and be entertained, it must be both! Even Joker's saying ''he's missed'' is cliché. Another goof. Joker shoots at the car, but no glass are broken, no bullet hole. What kind of bullet is this? Blank? Batmobile tumbles number of times, but Batman looks as if nothing happens, not even get injured! There is one more harsh car accident later that people look very well and sound! This is such a movie. Car accidents do nothing to people, blades don't stick or cut! The action sequence that S.W.A.T. and Batman encounter were one of the most tasteless action sequences ever made. Plus amateurish and showy shots (the glasses) As for the Batman Joker encounter, it was run of the mill and also insipid, I had expected much more.