A Masterpiece Unlike Anything I've Seen Before

Rating: 10/10 (18 August 2008)

This movie completely blew me away. Heath Ledger plays a psychotic joker flawlessly, Christian Bale surpasses his performance from Batman Begins, and Two-Face feels creepy and very real. The entire move holds true to not what positively could happen, but everything is definitely plausible. The only real question of realism was the Bat Glider, but I can accept that as a possibility. The whole film digs deep into the human mind and takes everything that you accept as good and bad, or right and wrong, and draws into the light and twists it around until you are not quite sure what you'd do in that particular situation. Like whether you'd kill a whole bunch of convicts in order to save your own life and the lives of people around you, or do you sit and wait to see if they will cause you to die, with no knowledge about what will happen if you don't push the button. Unlike many films that I have seen, the Dark Knight has no excess scenes that are simply there to fill in the next hour of your life. Each scene is tremendously important and by the end of the movie, you'll wonder where all the time went because you had such a truly incredible experience that two and a-half hours flew by and with an ending that will make you feel something that no other super-hero movie has ever made me feel before. This is probably my favorite film of all time, a spot that was formerly filled by Apocalypse Now, but Dark Knight has earned the spot.