The Best Movie of 2008

Rating: 10/10 (18 July 2008)

I just saw this movie for the third time in four days. I've just never been this addicted to a movie. Whenever I leave the theater after watching this film an unexplainable feeling comes over me and it's a realization that I've just seen something amazing.
Christopher Nolan's first attempt at a Batman film was great, it revised the series making it darker and giving it a realistic feel it had been lacking in previous attempts.
Nolan just blows this first movie out of the water with his second attempt. This movie is more than just another "Batman Film" it's an amazing piece of cinema. Everyone that worked on this movie was just spot on, from costume design to artwork to lighting every little part of production clicked and made this movie Oscar-worthy.
Nolan's direction is fantastic and the different shots you get to see around the beautiful city of Chicago are breathtaking. It provides the perfect backdrop for an epic battle of Good vs. Evil.
Acting is just amazing. Everyone brought their A game. Christian Bale portrays the tormented but slightly arrogant billionaire who is torn between saving Gotham and his love for Rachel Dawes. Christian Bale is now the only Batman in my eyes. Then we have Heath Ledger who plays the Joker and my god it's the best performance I've seen. Every scene he is in has you on the edge of your seat. Chills run up and down your spine at the sight of his grotesque face. You look into his eyes and you see a madman. Ledger's tour-de-force performance should get him a posthumous award for best actor. The rest of the cast is amazing as well, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman never disappoint. Maggie Gyllenhaal was good as Rachel Dawes and Gary Oldman was fantastic as police commissioner Gorden.
If you could throw everything you would want in a movie into a machine, it would spit out The Dark Knight. Everything in this movie is amazing, and I don't think you can fully understand just how good it is until you get out and see it.