great film, bad message

Rating: 8/10 (25 July 2008)

There's no doubt that The Dark Noight is one of the best 2008 films so far. Its first half is full of action, never boring and surpasses all expectations. However, in the second half, the action subsides and it turns into a suspense picture, and may I say, not so successfully as it is based on the famous comics. For people who haven't read or seen x-batman stories and movies, The Dark Night fails to capture their attention or focus as there are many information gaps that the director hasn't been careful enough to bridge for them. No matter how popular the story of a film is, still it should present a complete unit of meaning for new spectators. The performance of the lead characters is amazingly good, the special effects are convincing and they add more value to the "Batman Legend". When the action slows down in the second half, the philosophy of the "Joker" is amounts to call for anarchy. Between the ambivalence of life, the everlasting struggle between good and evil, there's plenty of roaming in grey areas. I know that the director can't change the main incidents but at least he could change focus and tone. Still it is a great movie and soon will be a classic that deserves watching it again and again.