Absolutely brilliant and stunning

Rating: 10/10 (1 September 2009)

The dark knight is one of the most superb and best DC comic book movies that I have seen in a while. I would say that it's probably better than all the marvel comic book movies that I have seen combined together. It has a good story which most audiences will find very moving and thrilling to watch on the big screen including great action sequences throughout the whole movie which keeps you on the edge of your seats.
I think the whole cast have done a brilliant job in the movie. Starting with Christian Bale who looked in better shape for this movie as he did in the previous one and in this one you see him as a new improved and better batman that he takes to the next level. Secondly Heath Ledger who stole almost every scene in the movie and is my favourite, did a hell of a job playing as the terrifying Joker and to be honest I couldn't possibly imagine anyone else playing the Joker more perfectly as the way he did it. It is also probably the best joker I have seen in a batman movie on the big screen so god bless you Heath Ledger, rest in peace. Also in between Aaron Eckhart did a fantastic job playing as Harvey Dent in the first half of the movie and then seeing his transformation into 2 face in the second half is brilliant to watch on the big screen because he's a very talented actor and has done a good job even though I didn't imagine him to portray this role. With introducing 2 Face this adds another mixture to the story which makes the movie work very well since its not only about the Joker and I also enjoyed watching how well Aaron and Heath work together on screen which adds another dynamic to the story and has 2 villains instead of one.
As for rest of the supporting cast including Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Maggie Gylenhall, Nestor Carbonell, Eric Roberts, Cillian Murphy, Michel Jai White and William Fitchner. I think they all did a phenomenal job starting with Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman who reprise their roles and both provide a bit of comic relief and sense of humour in the film which works quite well. As for Gary Oldman he gets more screen time in this movie as he did in the previous one and gets to do more things like becoming involved in some of the action sequences which is really good. Maggie Gylenhall does a great job playing Rachael Dawes even though she replaced Katie Holmes she still plays the role convincingly and in this one you see her become part of a love triangle and dilemma into choosing between Bruce Wayne or Harvey Dent which adds romance into the mix among the chaos. I also enjoyed watching Eric Roberts who played a great mob boss better than Tom Wilkinson in the first one with a bit of sense of humour. On the other side Michel Jai White also did a good job playing the gang leader role even though he had less screen time, but he did manage to have at least one or 2 funny lines in the movie which made it great to see him come face to face in 2 scenes that he has with the joker in the movie. It was also great to see Cillian Murphy back as the Scarecrow even though he did a great job in the first one, I was still disappointed that he did not get enough screen time in the movie and only appeared briefly in the beginning because it would have been great to see him team up with 2 face and joker that could have made the movie even more better with 3 villains. It is a possibility that he could come back in the 3rd batman movie as a full time villain that's if there is one. Last of all Nester Carbonell and William Fitchner did great in portraying their roles as Mayer and bank manger since they are 2 popular actors that you will probably see in Lost and Prison Break which is quite good since they are in the movie having small and big roles.
I think the crew also deserve credit for making this film and putting in a lot of hard effort to create the sound and special CGI effects including the beautiful music score for the movie and excellent directing from Christopher Nolan who deserves an Oscar award.
Above all I think this movie is awesome and defiantly worth watching. Personally I recommend it to anyone who is a batman fan or not and if you haven't seen batman begins then don't bother watching this film at all unless you have seen the first one.