Comic Strip Psycho-Brilliance!

Rating: 9/10 (24 July 2008)

Christopher Nolan/David Goyer's "Batman Begins" was excellent, but obviously fell short of being the true harbinger for the future brilliance that was to come The Dark Knight. As already mentioned, all performances are superb (special kudos to Ledger), but story and cinematography, as woven by the Nolan brother's is nothing short of breathtaking. "The Dark Knight" is one of the deepest journey's into the macabre ever filmed. Not only are we drawn to our "protagonist", but we find ourselves eerily sharing a common thread with both the Joker, and Two Face, a woven path that has us as an audience, in a conundrumof horror and laughter. Needless to say, no easy feat for any motionpicture, let alone one whose characters have been known for 70 years! I am sure to a person, each of us came out of the theater thoroughly entertained, yet thoroughly bothered by not only what we had seen, but just as definitively what we had felt. This movie is as unique an experience you will find in Cinema, one that happens all to infrequently. That is why "The Dark Knight" ranks as great film.