An Absolutely Astonishing Movie. I still can't believe it.

Rating: 10/10 (19 July 2008)

I think it was the opening scene in Dark Knight that really blew my mind. It was reminiscent of a Quentin Tarantino Film, a bank robbery where everyone is ordered to kill everyone. Not for a moment did I expect the clown mask to come off only to reveal Heath Ledger. From there on in this movie literally held me at the edge of my seat, mesmerized by what would happen next. Every time Ledger took the screen he commanded your attention, whether you chose to give it to him or not he had your focus. He was truly the greatest batman villain ever portrayed on screen. Ledger took the joker and made him charismatic, seedy, and terrifying. Never before have I seen Christian Bale get out-acted in a film, but Heath knew what he was doing. Everyone did on this film. Nolan made every scene as intense as the next, Christian Bale made Batman into not a superhero, but a man, something the character had been missing before. I mean, there is almost no way they could have made this movie better. From the intense special effects that used almost no CGI and still blew me away to the gripping storyline or the multitude of villains and realistic feel of Gotham City and all it's surroundings, I felt like a gothamite just watching the events unfold. Not only will I say this is the best movie of 2008, but probably the best comic book movie of all time.