The Dark Knight - The Climax of Comic Book Movies.

Rating: 10/10 (18 July 2008)

The Dark Knight is rather hard for me to put into words. Sublime, Superb, Fantastic, Amazing, Incredible, and Unbelievable don't give it justice. This movie flows with such ease you don't even know where the two hours and thirty minutes went. Yet I fear that this is the climax to all comic book movies, from here on they will never be this good.
I'll start with the one who brought this movie together, the glue, and that of course is the late Heath Ledger. His performance was spectacular better then I could have imagined. His portrayal of the Joker in his twitches, movements, speech patterns, and actions in general are exactly as how I saw the Joker. I didn't see acting when I watched Heath as the Joker, I saw a completely different person, he fully immersed himself into that role and played it flawless. I am a HUGE movie guy, and his performance was better then what I have seen in many of the films today. I can't describe it, you feel his presence and you believe in his character to be a true person. Heath made this movie into the masterpiece it was with this performance, and at the least deserves a Oscar nomination for his role. If Johnny Depp, was able to gain a nomination for Jack Sparrow Heath should have the nomination for best supporting actor sealed. It's just winning the Oscar, which will prove to be the hardest goal due to the comic based film and all the movies set-backs towards the academy.
Nolan, the director and co-writer, made this film feel like a rollarcoaster ride into hell. Yet, in the best way. The i-max scenes are amazing in sound, size, and spectacle. The robbery scenes bring back memories of the movie Heat or Point Break, yet adds a new touch to this old concepts to Bank Robbery. He and his brother, John, wrote this script is written to perfection, due to the plot points it makes by using the characters to drive the plot, especially Harvey Dent and the Joker.
Bale and Aaron Eckhart played great roles, yet I do think Aaron out did Christan acting wise in this movie. Due to the many layers that Dent has in his character. He brings Dent alive and the Two-Face character to an even greater extreme. Bale did well, but was rather out-done by most of the cast in this film. He still did play the role of the playboy billionaire to perfection.
This movie is not just a popcorn flick, it can be seen as way more. it proves some very solid points on order, corruption, and sanity. It makes you really think about how you would handle yourself in the position the characters are in. This movie has my pick for movie of the year, hands down. And not just comic book movies, I mean all the movies that have come out.