The pinnacle of the genre, a timeless masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (20 July 2008)

Before I saw "The Dark Knight" I never thought that a movie of such power and magnitude will ever come to life from the pages of a comic book, but I was wrong - very, very wrong. Chris Nolan shows us his genius at work yet again, creating the best comic book adaptation ever and probably one of best movies of all times.
The screenplay is simply fantastic - the storyline is compelling, very well paced and full of intelligent twists. The character development is superb. So is the acting - a lot was already written for the performance of Heath Ledger, so I won't go into any details there. I only want to say that if the Academy does not at least consider him for an Oscar that would be truly outrageous - he is simply perfect - crazy, witty, scary... Christian Bale performs his part very well as expected - he's much more convincing as Batman this time around.
Special ovations for Aaron Eckhart for his role as DA Harvey Dent - he does outstanding work and gets pretty close to Ledger's game. The supporting cast - Michael Caine, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman, can be described as incredible as well, especially Caine. I haven't watched recently I movie packed with so many star actors interacting so well on the screen.
My only regret for this movie is that it was not at least 5 hours long. When I was in the cinema I hoped that it would never end and I can assure this hasn't happened to me in many years... Truly - a masterpiece, the pinnacle of the superhero genre and maybe of cinematography itself...