Chaotic and unlogic

Rating: 3/10 (4 August 2008)

What is this? I can't explain all the enthusiasm for this movie as anything else than necrophilia. Let people die and suddenly everything they do is great. And indeed, Heath Ledger is great in this film. But he's the only one. And lucky for him he's good. Because he has done his share of bad acting in the past. Though I must say he was improving quickly in recent years. I loved him in the Bob Dylan-movie. I hated him in 'Brokeback Mountain'. His performance was too much of a performance there, a number of tics and tricks. Christian Bale is awful here. He looks, acts and walks in and through this movie as if he's the same character from 'American Psycho'. His character is a sleazy bastard, who thinks his money and his own vision is enough to save the world. The arrogance of the character is highly disturbing. And what is the character of Maggie Gyllenhaal doing in this movie. She's a silly women running after the wrong men and paying her life because of her bad taste in men. And are we supposed to cheer for Harvey Dent until he shows his true face? What an asshole. Is this one of these disastermovies which want to warn us for the disastrous future we're heading to? It's so sad to see all these positive reactions. Who are you people? Don't you see the aggression? And are you that silly to accept all the lack of logic. On the one hand this film want to be realistic and dark, over the top dark yes, but still... But then on the other hand it forgets all logic and reality whenever the screenwriters feel they have no logic explanation to give. How some characters suddenly survive when everything is burning and exploding, I don't know. And the whole movie we're after the Joker, but when they finally get hold of him, we don't get to know what is happening with him. I am a huge fan of 'Memento' and I also thought 'Insomnia' was a great and clever full. But as clever as the former films of Nolan were, as stupid is this one.