Redefined what the Batman movies were really about

Rating: 10/10 (20 October 2014)

Christopher Nolan's well done second film to his Batman trilogy The Dark Knight not only was an action movie masterpiece, but also is very Hitchcockian at the same time. The movie stars Christian Bale who does it again with his role as Batman aka the caped crusader, the dark knight, or the world's greatest detective whatever you want to call him. The movie tells the story about when Batman, Harvey Dent (played by Aaron Eckhart who later becomes the schizoid criminal mastermind mastermind Two Face) and Commissioner James W. Gordon (played by Gary Oldman)end up launching an all out assault on the mafia after Commissioner Lobe's death and don't realize there is another psycho in the streets who calls himself the Joker (played by Heath Ledger in a shocking final performance) whose objective is to bring Gotham city to it's worst. Nolan uses a bigger cast and some of which were in his previous batman film Batman Begins (2005), the cast to this movie also consists of (besides Bale, Oldman, Eckhart, and Ledger) it also features Michael Caine who reprises his profound supporting performance as Alfred Pennyworth, Maggie Gyllenhaal who is Katie Holmes' replacement as Rachel Dawes, and Cillian Murphy who makes a brief appearance as the psycho- maniac Scarecrow. Man if only the other Batman films that came out before Nolan's trilogy/reboots would have been as great and well done as this film, as well as Batman Begins (2005), and The Dark Knight Rises (2012).