The perfect recipe for a superhero movie

Rating: 10/10 (22 February 2018)

Only three years after the critically acclaimed "Batman Begins", Christopher Nolan continues the soon-to-be legendary batman-trilogy. It surpasses the hype built up from batman begins, and delivers on the expectations from the new recast of everyones favorite Batman-villain.
I remember the controversy that boiled up before the premiere, about who was going to play the joker. When the first pictures of Heath Ledgers makeup-face was revealed (the close-up one), people criticized the casting choice heavily! They couldn't believe that the guy from "Brokeback Mountain" and "10 things I hate about you", could surpass Nicholson's Joker in any way. But BOY! where they wrong.... Ledger goes on to deliver the best performance in the entire franchise, and probably goes down as one of the best villains in superhero-movie-history. Which is unfortunately a title delivered to his grave.
The film is really high on both action and drama! And the effects works so well, being that a lot of em are practical, which is a fresh thing to see in the uprising of the CGI movies. The drama between the characters are extremely emotional for at comic-book movie, but is minimalisktic when it comes to the number of dramatic characters. The heavy drama mostly revolves around 4 people - Gordon, Wayne, Dent and Rachel. The side-characters withing the drama works as pressure points for the individual motivation - which is not made into sub-plots, but rather background motivation for the supporting characters. It's something that would ruin some film in another genre, but it's executed to perfection and works so well with Nolans dark Batman-universe.
This is definitely a milestone for film-making, as Nolan shows how you revive a dead franchise from the claws of the God awful Schumacher-films. Also the use of practical effects goes way longer than any action movie i have ever seen! Not to spoil anything but.... They flip a truck vertically over the chassis (if you can imagine).