A comic book movie turned into a detective crime masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (20 July 2008)

The Dark Knight is one of those comic book based films that has raised the bar. Though the movie is 2 hours and 30 minutes long, the film has become a detective action drama in the vein of The Untouchables where our Dark Knight (Christian Bale) is the Eliot Ness and The Joker (Heath Ledger) is the Al Capone. In the course of the film Harvey Dent is represented to be the one who would replace Batman in the crusade of cleaning Gotham City with the intent of retiring to pursue his normal life but things go wrong when the Joker has become a major threat. Joker really is a worthy adversary to the Batman, he pounds him psychologically and tactically especially to Harvey Dent. I liked the way Aaron Eckhart portrayed Harvey Dent, he was played not as a villain but a victim of circumstances it makes his character more human. As for the Joker, he's really scary most of the time but provided some little laughs. It's too bad that Heath Ledger passed away I hope he'd get an Oscar nomination for this, he's really good. Eckhart, Ledger and even Gary Oldman are the stars of the film, Batman became more of the supporting actor in the film process and it works.