The best crime film of the year, with the most Iconic performance of the decade

Rating: 10/10 (19 July 2008)

If you took the first Batman but added elements of Chinatown/Double Indemnity, Heat, and A Clockwork Orange you would get The Dark Knight. This is the best escapist film of the year, the best crime film of the year, the only true film-noir of the year, and of course Heath Ledger gives an unbelievably detailed and bold performance. He was the most brave young actor in Hollywood. What he did in Brokeback drew me too tears, and I am not gay, I just love great films. He was so committed and knew exactly what too do for each character he played. He was The Joker mixed with Alex Delarge and Hunter S. Thompson. Even in his bad films he was at least good. It is a shame that he left us because he would have become the most interesting actor in America since Nicholson broke out in the 70's. The problems with the film are insignificant because they don't effect or affect the film experience; like how Maggie Gyllenhal makes Rachel Dawes insignificant. Christopher Nolan re-created the experience of seeing a film. The way he uses the IMAX camera in the film makes the holding shots of the buildings seem like the deserts in Lawrence of Arabia and a certain element to the film. The scene where batman is protecting Dent from The Joker is one of the best action scenes I have ever seen. Love Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Aaron Eckhart. I am glad Gary Oldman had a little bit more too do in this film then in begins because he is such a great actor. Most people don't know who he is just because he is such a chameleon. This is a man who can play Sid Vicious, Joe Orton, Lee Harvey Oswalt, Dracula, a Rastafarian pimp drug dealer, A crazy corrupt pill popping cop, Beethoven, Harry Potter's mentor, or even just a good cop in Nolan's batman films. I love the casting that Nolan has done throughout Begins and Dark Knight. Bale is a little bit better in the first one, but he is still good and I predict there will be more on his shoulders for the third and he can handle it because he is a talented and committed actor. Because of that, i hope he doesn't get pigeonholed as an action star. The best experience I have had during a film throughout the decade and it is even one of the best films of the decade, not top ten, but certainly top 25 or 30, and by far the best superhero/comic book film ever, not even close. It's my third favorite film of the year and I hope it gets nominations from The Academy, but I don't think it will win anything except for possibly some technical categories and of course BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR for Ledger, who does work here comparable too Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs.
R.I.P. Heath Ledger