One of the Years Finest Films

Rating: 9/10 (3 June 2009)

Batman has been with us ever since our childhood. He was our hero on television and in comic books. We saw a really good performance of him by Christian Bale in 2005's Batman Begins. But this time, we get what is probably the greatest Batman film ever made, The Dark Knight.
Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) and Officer Gordon (Gary Oldman) investigate a series of Heat-style robberies by a man known only as The Joker (Heath Ledger). Meanwhile, District Attourney Harvey Dent and Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is caught in a love triangle between Bruce and Harvey) put away a whole Mafia family in one trial. The Mafia hires the psychotic Joker to take out the cities leaders, including the Batman. The Joker goes further than he was supposed to, causing total chaos and anarchy.
This action film is probably the best superhero film I've seen in a long time. We have had many disappointing ones such as Spiderman 3 and X Men 3 but we finally get one that is gritty and more realistic. Heath Ledger won a well deserved Oscar for this movie and I wish he could have lived to see it, he buried Jack Nicholson six feet under the ground and stomped on him until he was battered and bruised.
I give this movie a solid 10/10