The Dark Knight Summary and Movie Effects

Rating: Null/10 (15 March 2010)

When watching "The Dark Knight" you can see amazing acting by Christian Bale acting as Batman and Bruce Wayne and a heart stopping performance by Heath Ledger played as the Joker. This film is a classic good guy, bad guy film in which the good guy is out to save the world by capturing the bad guy. In this film we see the cat and mouse of Batman and the Joker. Even when we see the Joker captured we are not prepared for all of the tricks that he as to offer to Gotham City. This is like many of the other Batman films that have been released prior to this when it comes to the story line. However, when talking about special effects, acting and special effects "The Dark Knight" does an outstanding job keeping you on your toes. Heath Ledger does an amazing job playing as the Joker. You get a true since of a man that had a difficult life growing up and has a different perspective on the world around him. This is a key thing to think about when watching the film is the perspective of each character. Each character has their own thoughts on what an ideal world should be like; this causes conflict with other characters and ads to the story. This film from the beginning to the end has an upbeat story line, which will keep any action seeking person satisfied during each scene. When looking at effects such as makeup and costumes, both Batman and the Joker are what any person could imagine them to look like. The joker has a dark and dungy look that adds to his malevolence performance. When looking at Batman we see a dark side just like the Joker, however with a clean and technical outfit. The special effects on the film where also outstanding. One example that sticks out would be when we see two face in the hospital, during that time we see how a burn destroyers a side of his face. There was a great amount of detail that went into making his burned face look like what we imagine a burn face would look like. When looking at the camera angles there was a lot of detail that went into making sure that there was proper depth to give a true scene of how high buildings were. Overall, "The Dark Knight" is a great film however Lt. James Gordon says it best "Nothing. No matches on prints, DNA, dental. Clothing is custom, no labels. Nothing in his pockets but knives and lint. No name, no other alias." This is the best way to describe how great and different "The Dark Knight" is.