2008's Dark Masterpiece.

Rating: 9/10 (19 November 2008)

Directed by the academy award nominee Christopher Nolan (Memento), 'The Dark Knight' tells the story of Batman's (Christian Bale - Batman Begins), latest challenge: this time he will have to deal with the gruesome and deadly psycho maniac, named The Joker (Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain), in a battle that will lead Gotham City to chaos.
Christopher Nolan's latest piece of work, handles us a spectacular show of action with a much darker and serious Batman, performed by an excellent Christian Bale, that again, fits on well as the dark knight from Gotham City. Keeping some details previous seen in 'Batman Begins, such as the use of a dark photography to straight up the movie's style, 'Memento's academy award nominee director works some of his magic and delivers a perfect and con masterpiece, much more dramatic than the first, and the proof that he is one of the best directors these days.
Helped by his brother, Jonathan (also academy award nominee), the two of them build up a solid script, where they add some excellent details about the characters and a plot where everything is amazingly connected. Every single piece fits in, and in the end you don't even have questions, because the screenplay is perfectly written, and during the movie it all makes sense. I rally liked what they did to some things: like creating the illusion that Batman is not an hero, but an anti-hero, and that Gotham's real hero is Harvey Dent. Plus the creation of a more terrifying maniac Joker, is a deluxe point in the movie, much due to Heat Ledger's outstanding performance, where the late Australian actor leads up, one of the greatest performances I have ever seen. Not kidding. I really hope he wins the Oscar and it would be an outrage if he wasn't even nominated.
Finally, three yeas after the release of a revolution in the Batman series, 'The Dark Knight' is pushed to another kind of level, where the word 'masterpiece' applies very well to describe it. I clear up, that when I say that this is one of the best movies ever made, I'm not lying. at all. For those who don't believe me, just watch it and then we'll see what you have to say about 'The Dark Knight'. 10/10.